Chapter 25: Outrageous Game Prices

Making friends is not an easy thing.

Especially in the game "Living with Others Simulator", making friends is not only time-consuming, but also expensive!

That’s right!

After playing for half an hour, Guo Mo finally realized the true meaning of making friends, which is to give them gifts.

The more gifts you give, the more favorable you become! If you don't give gifts, it's useless to just lick them. This crappy game is just disgusting.

Chatting and chatting only adds one or two points of favorability, while giving a gift can add dozens of points.

"What a weird setting!"

After complaining about the favorability mechanism in the game, Guo Mo frowned as his pocket money was not enough again.

Save money to buy props to restore physical strength and self-esteem, save money to buy various gifts... There are many places in the game where you need to spend money, but the source of pocket money is very single.

The pocket money given by the aunt every day is a guarantee mechanism, allowing the protagonist to have a relatively stable source of "income".

But how can this be enough?

Guo Mo also wanted to gain the favor of all his classmates, and then take on tasks and get full rewards. This was simply impossible with just the guaranteed pocket money.

"Then go work!"

Someone in the barrage suggested: "I recommend washing dishes in a restaurant. It requires less physical effort, the salary is very high, and it won't cost you too much self-esteem."

"Anchor, go online!"

“It’s so cool to surf the Internet…”

"Where's the property manager? Hurry up and ban this guy who keeps surfing the Internet!"

Guo Mo couldn't stand it any longer. From the time he started playing this game until now, there has always been a sad person in the live broadcast room constantly telling him to go online.

hateful!

You villain, don't disturb my spiritual mind.

All you do all day is go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet. When you were a kid, you must have used this trick a lot to lure your classmates into depravity, right?

"Then go wash the dishes..."

After the internet-addicted teenager who was spamming the screen was blocked, the barrage of comments suddenly became much cleaner. In order to make money, Guo Mo decided to work in a restaurant washing dishes.

You know what, the barrage didn’t lie to him.

The prices in this game are outrageous. A mobile phone costs 9,999 yuan, a pair of sneakers costs 999 yuan, which sounds expensive, right? But a bicycle that can increase the speed of the character only costs 88 yuan, and a restaurant can earn a "huge" income of 50 yuan per hour by washing dishes! "The prices are outrageous. What kind of genius designed these prices?"

While controlling the character to work after school, Guo Mo chatted with the barrage, and the topic seemed to be the extremely abstract price level in the game.

All props related to the core values ​​of the game are priced more outrageously than others, and you have to work for several days to buy one.

But props that have nothing to do with the core values ​​of the game and can be said to be of little use are very cheap, such as a bicycle, which can be bought by working for two hours.

“It’s really outrageous!”

"A hamburger costs five yuan, and a bottle of Coke costs two yuan, and it's a big 500ml bottle. I'm so jealous..."

"The prices of items in the game, excluding those with numerical values, should be generally around the average level of the last few decades."

"How could you earn 50 yuan an hour working in the 2000s? Don't be ridiculous! I can work at a job that pays 50 yuan an hour until the end of time..."

The barrage also started a discussion, mainly talking about the protagonist's extremely exaggerated "hourly wage".

A job that pays 50 dollars an hour is considered a "high salary" that is hard for ordinary people to imagine today. Most people's hourly wage is lower than this.

"The hourly wage is ridiculous. They pay me so much just for washing dishes. If it were me, I would have dropped out of school to focus on washing dishes."

Guo Mo teased, then said with a smile: "But this is quite normal. After all, there are many props that need to be purchased in the game, and players will lose their self-esteem if they work, so the salary will definitely be higher."

This involves numerical balance.

Although Guo Mo did not understand game numerical design, he had played quite a few games and could see through the deep meaning behind this "high hourly wage" at a glance.

To put it simply, the game is set in the real world in the 2000s, and prices are also at the level of that era.

According to this logic, the protagonist's hourly wage for washing dishes should also be in line with the average standard of that era.

But here’s the thing…

Some game props, such as sneakers, mobile phones, clothes and game consoles, are "bound" to core values, and players will purchase them frequently.

Otherwise, if we really calculate it based on the price level, what game props can a player afford to buy with the little money he makes washing dishes in a restaurant? In order to achieve game balance, there are outrageous prices in the game, such as 88 yuan for a bicycle, 999 yuan for a pair of sneakers, and 50 yuan for an hour of work.

“No matter how high the salary is, it’s not enough!”

Some viewers questioned that the game's core items were sold at extremely high prices, and even with a high salary of 50 yuan per hour, it was hard to say that it was enough.

"So, why would you buy items that have to do with numbers?"

"Host, listen to my advice. After washing the dishes, go to the Internet cafe for the night. With the protagonist's salary, it's no problem for him to stay in the Internet cafe!"

"Stop it! The protagonist is a good kid, don't give me any rash advice. Listen to me, save money honestly and then... open an internet cafe!"

You guys really deserve to die! Guo Mo's face flushed red, and he wished he could follow the Internet cable to pull out all these barrage comments one by one, and then beat them to death.

You guys don't study hard and go to Internet cafes all day, right? You've been caught in the rain, so now you can't stand seeing others holding umbrellas, and you want [葬爱~小莫] to get caught in the rain like you and become an Internet addict, right?

Guo Mo would not be fooled! Those who tricked him into going online had bad intentions.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

[Burial of Love~Xiao Mo] But he is a truly good kid. He will not indulge in depravity and believe in the nonsense in the barrage of comments and run to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet all night long.

Work, keep working! After devoting all his rest time to working, Xiao Mo soon saved up a large sum of money and planned to go to the mall to spend a lot of money.

"I want to buy a game console, two pairs of sneakers, and a digital watch..."

Guo Mo, who was controlling the game character to stroll around the mall, was carefully thinking about what props he should buy to play a key role.

This money didn't come easily. He worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant for a week to save up enough money. He couldn't spend it recklessly.

"Hey wait a minute..."

Passing by a clothing store, Guo Mo seemed to have discovered a new world and said in surprise: "Why is there a sales office next to the mall?"

It should be just a sticker! I tried to press the F key to interact. Guo Mo, who had no hope at first, was stunned the next second.

Got in? This sales office is not just a background image, it is actually interactive, and you can even go inside? "Details!"

Guo Mo, who was impressed by the game's full details, walked up to the NPC and had a conversation with him at the unanimous request of the audience.

"Fuck! Can you really buy a house?"

"My goodness, you've even made a real estate model? You're really obsessed with details!"

“The average price is 4500/square meter, so cheap!”

"Come on, how high could housing prices be in the early 2000s? Besides, the city where the protagonist lives isn't a big city..."

The house costs 4,500 yuan per square meter, and the only payment is in full. It is obvious that [Zang Ai ~ Xiao Mo] cannot afford it, and no player can afford it.

"The total price for a 140-square-meter apartment is 630,000 yuan. Wow!"

After a quick calculation, Guo Mo muttered, "In fact, if the protagonist wants to buy a house, it is not that he can't afford it. He can wash dishes for 12 hours a day for more than 1,000 days."

But that doesn't make sense.

The house you buy in the game cannot be lived in and has no additional attributes, it is purely a decoration.

Giving up school to wash dishes just to buy a house is meaningless and does not live up to the expectations of the parents in the game.

This is the same as what the bullet screen said about surfing the Internet. In an RPG simulation game with such a high degree of freedom, you can do this, but it will be boring...

After all, the total game process is close to 10 hours. Spending so much time repeating a boring task just to buy a house in the game, isn't that crazy?

"During the second or third round, I can try to save some money and see if I can buy a house."

Guo Mo shook his head and prepared to leave the sales office: "But forget it now, I haven't even opened the main line yet!"

"Host, don't leave in a hurry. Take another look at Building 3 of the Sales Office..."

"What happened to Building 3?"

The reminder from the barrage made Guo Mo curious. He controlled the character to walk back into the sales office and took a look at the building schematic.

When he saw this, he was stunned.

(End of this chapter)