Chapter 260 Master Hu Xi is truly amazing! (Happy New Year to everyone)
This is not the first time that Tianba Studio has experienced its game being reported.
However, such outrageous reports as "Past Events in a Mountain Village" are still a bit rare, especially the identity of the reporter, combined with the charge of "propagating feudal superstition", which is really embarrassing.
Since Brother Ba is not here, Huang Qing is the boss of the studio and he is responsible for handling this matter.
In this regard, he gave only one solution, that is to ignore it! Are you kidding!
If it was someone else who reported this kind of nonsense, they would have taken it seriously. But since it was reported by a group of "fraudulent" fortune tellers, there was no need to pay attention to them.
"We want to clarify one thing: the divination function of "Mountain Village Past" is not a trick, but a scientific probability calculation!"
Huang Qing said seriously: "These fortune tellers don't understand science, nor do they know what computer Internet is, so they have misunderstandings."
It doesn’t matter if they don’t understand, as long as someone does.
This blame cannot be put on Tianba Studio. On the contrary, they can use this incident to further hype up the popularity of "scientific divination" and make more people pay attention to the game "Mountain Village Past".
Win, win! Facts have proved that Huang Qing's handling of the matter was fine. When the news that a group of fortune-tellers jointly reported "Mountain Village Past" became a hot search, netizens all burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, does this count as being furious after having your job destroyed?"
"These masters probably never dreamed that one day they would lose their jobs to a small program built into a game."
"It's so funny! How come the fortune teller didn't predict this day? I was planning to ask a fortune teller to pick an auspicious day and time for my wedding, but now, I think it's better to ask "Mountain Village Past" for a fortune-teller..."
"Brother, you're steady! Compared to these mysterious masters, I'd rather believe in "The Past of a Mountain Village"!"
"Queshi! They are both involved in metaphysics, do you believe in these masters? Or do you believe in Brother Yishouba?"
Brother Ba YYDS!
This is the common voice of many netizens after the news fermented.
Especially through the revelations and spoofs of many netizens, seeing that these masters who are usually "good at calculating" were all broken by a game, my confidence has become more strengthened.
Metaphysics, right?
When it comes to metaphysics, who can you turn to? Compared to these masters, Brother Ba’s “scientific divination” is more trustworthy.
Although……
The divination function of "Mountain Village Past" seems to be only able to predict one's own luck in the game, but cannot predict good or bad fortune in real life.
But here comes the problem.
Can these fortune-tellers accurately predict the good and bad fortune in real life? They can't! Fortune-telling is a very mysterious thing, and no one dares to guarantee that it is 100% accurate. Anyway, it's all ambiguous and mysterious, so who can you trust? At least the fortune-telling function of "Mountain Village Past" can calculate your game fortune, while these masters can't calculate it. Just based on this point, Brother Ba has won too much.
At the beginning, only some netizens, with a try-it attitude, used the divination system of "Mountain Village Past" to predict auspicious days and times for themselves.
Later, with the entry of some middle-aged and elderly people, the situation suddenly became even more bizarre.
Young people don’t actually believe in the power of metaphysics, they just simply think that since "Mountain Village Past" can calculate my gaming fortune, it’s quite interesting, so I share it with my parents to experience it.
The ideas of middle-aged and elderly people are different from those of young people.
Their acceptance of fortune-telling and divination is definitely much higher than that of young people. When they experienced the divination function of "Mountain Village Past", they were instantly amazed!
What the hell? There is such a game? A game that can be so magical that it can even calculate your future fortune and good and bad luck?
This is amazing! The degree of superstition among middle-aged and elderly people is beyond everyone's imagination. And their use of the divination function of "Mountain Village Past" also opened the eyes of young people.
What does an auspicious day and time mean? These are nothing. For any big or small matter at home, you have to turn on the computer first and ask the magical "Hu Xi" master.
Yes, Master Hu Xi...
Hu Xi, the protagonist of "Mountain Village Past", is respected as Master Hu Xi by these middle-aged and elderly players because his face appears throughout the whole process.
Master Hu Xi is amazing. Let him tell your fortune. He is guaranteed to be reliable!
The key is, no money...
"Isn't this the most important reason?" Lao Luo said speechlessly.
Compared to the real masters who charge high fees, have unknown accuracy, and rely entirely on mystification to deceive people, the "Hu Xi" master in the game is not only accurate, but also free of charge.
Free of charge, accurate divination! These two points completely grasp the characteristics of middle-aged and elderly people who love to get a bargain, and they grasp them firmly, making them believe in the divination of Master "Hu Xi".
"Any questions?"
Xiao Lu nodded and said, "Do you know what the first thing my dad does when he wakes up every day?"
“It can’t be…”
Before Lao Luo finished speaking, Xiao Lu said with certainty: "Yes, it's just as you thought. When you get up, turn on your computer and tell your fortune."
It's absolutely amazing! Xiao Lu was stunned by his father's train of thought. He said more than once that "Mountain Village Past" is just a game and the fortune-telling function is just a computer program.
But his father had been poisoned by "Past Events in the Mountain Village" and believed in the divination results of Master Hu Xi.
“What happened to the computer program?”
"He's accurate in his predictions. Is there anything wrong with me calling him a master? Do you think that Master Hu Xi's predictions are inaccurate?"
The old father's question immediately silenced Xiao Lu.
The calculation is not accurate?
How could he know if it was accurate? This thing was pure metaphysics and idealism, wasn't it just a matter of words? Moreover, this thing calculated "game luck", and he had to associate it with real-life luck, this... wasn't this too far-fetched and outrageous?
"If Brother Ba knew that the function he developed would be used like this, he would probably be shocked, right?" Lao Luo laughed.
Everyone knows.
Brother Ba has always emphasized that metaphysics is pure nonsense. The divination system of "Mountain Village Past" is not metaphysics, but uses the data collected by the game to perform certain probability calculations and predictions.
To put it bluntly, this is the same as the "real-time winning rate" predicted by Colonel KI during the LOL game.
Based on the real-time situation and data of the game, predicting the team's winning rate, is this metaphysics? Oh, the colonel has the attribute of poisonous milk? That's fine!
"Forget it, do as you please."
Xiao Lu said helplessly: "I am only worried that these people will use "Mountain Village Past" to predict good and bad luck in reality. If they find that it is inaccurate, they will not come to trouble us, right?"
"Don't worry, it won't happen!"
"Why do you think those fortune tellers who cheat people aren't afraid of getting in trouble with their clients?"
Lao Luo rolled his eyes and said, "Let's not talk about who would cause trouble for this. Even if someone does, this reason doesn't even meet the standard for filing a case."
"Mountain Village Past" is just a game. It is not a scam and Tianba Studio has not made any claims of "ironclad predictions". Why should we cause trouble for them?
"That's true..."
Xiao Lu muttered, then seemed to remember something and asked Lao Luo, "By the way, have you paid attention to the latest transaction in the "Speed Rush" section of Tianning Pavilion?"
"You mean the 2 million dollar shop deal?"
"Yes! This seems to be a bit too hyped. Do you think we should inform Brother Ba?"
Xiao Lu said worriedly, "I used to think that the real estate speculation in games like "Living with Others Simulator" was outrageous enough, but I never expected that there would be something even more serious to come..."
No matter how much the game "Living With Others" speculates on real estate, it is just a transaction of game currency. To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is at most an interesting story, and no one will take it to heart.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But the current hype trading of "Fast and Furious" in the store is not for game coins, but for real RMB, and it has been hyped up to a high price of 2 million...
Who wouldn't be panicked after hearing this? What does two million mean? Many people can't earn this much money in their lifetime. If it were in cash, it can be said that 90% of the people in the country can't come up with two million.
But with so much money, he used it to buy a "virtual" real estate shop in the game!
This amount was beyond Xiao Lu's imagination, and it also made him a little worried, because anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was a completely "hyped" price.
It was nothing but bubbles! The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. He felt that if the hype continued, "Fast and Furious" would run into big problems sooner or later.
The players are just crazy.
As the game officials, they must step in to stop or resolve the behavior of "hyping game real estate" from the source.
If a store in the game is sold for a whopping 2 million today, will it be sold for 3 million or 5 million tomorrow? Is this thing worth that much?
Not worth it! Let alone millions, even hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands, Xiao Lu felt it was outrageous. Why could a few strings of code in the game be sold for so much money? "We really need to teach the players a lesson!"
Lao Luo agreed deeply: "And you only noticed the store transactions, but didn't notice that there was another thing that was also being maliciously hyped."
"Fast and Furious" is a game with the highest transaction volume in Tianning Pavilion, and many transactions of game characters and game props take place every day.
Among them, in addition to the most eye-catching online mode "shop", there is another game prop that is also very expensive - rare racing cars! When making the game "Need for Speed", when proposing to add a "durability" setting to the racing cars in the game, Brother Ba used "CS:GO" as an example.
It turns out.
Brother Ba may have anticipated this day a long time ago. The rare and precious racing cars in "Need for Speed" have formed a huge industrial chain, just like the gun skins in "CS:GO".
A rare and valuable racing car is put up for sale in Tianning Pavilion and can easily be sold for hundreds or even thousands of dollars!
And if this car has limited repairs and good durability, it will be more valuable...
They are exactly the same! The only difference is that CS:GO gun skins and other things can be obtained through official box opening, which has a bit of "gambling" element.
As for the precious and rare racing cars in "Need for Speed", there are more ways to obtain them. They can only be obtained through modification and manufacturing in the game, participating in competitions and getting good results, breaking records or refreshing leaderboards, and achieving special achievements.
This method of obtaining them determines that the precious racing cars in "Ford" are really rare, and most of them are "unique" models.
So there is absolutely no pressure at all when it comes to hype. After all, who doesn’t want a unique racing car with special attributes or meaning?
“This is not bad…”
Xiao Lu didn't think much of it. He thought that at worst it would just become the next CS:GO. He could build cars in the game anyway, so there wouldn't be any big trouble.
The key is still the shop transactions. The hype is too outrageous. No matter what, who knows what it will be like in the future?
“The question is how to manage it?”
“Are we going to learn how to operate in “Living Under Someone Else’s House Simulator” and directly intervene and regulate the prices of store transactions?” Lao Luo complained.
"That trick doesn't work. There is only one way to curb this kind of hype, and that is to make it easier to acquire online stores."
Something that is one in a million is bound to be very precious, and the price will be hyped up to an outrageous level. But if everyone has one of this thing, will anyone still cherish it, or even hype up the price?
Xiao Lu’s solution is to change the online mode to a “battle system”, so that players can be diverted to different battles, and each battle has a batch of separate online stores.
In this case, the online mode shops are worthless, after all, how many players are there in a battle? "Okay, then I'll do as you say."
Lao Luo nodded and said, "Need for Speed should have changed the online mode a long time ago. With so many players crowded on one line, the server crashes every few days..."
Players have long been dissatisfied with this.
For the online mode, you can learn from the approach of "Horizon 5". It seems that everyone is crowded in one place, but in fact, if you don't invite a team, it is difficult to meet another person on the map.
A battle system like GTA would also work.
However, the battle can accommodate too few players. It would be better to accommodate more players, otherwise the online mode will be no different from the stand-alone mode.
“I think it would be ideal for the online mode to have 2,000 to 3,000 players in one lane.”
Lao Luo suggested: "Too many will cause too much pressure on the server, too few will make the map seem too deserted, and you won't meet other players even after wandering around for a long time."
"That's what I thought."
"When Brother Ba comes back from the meeting, I will ask him to allocate funds to upgrade our server configuration and bandwidth."
Xiao Lu has had enough.
After all, it is one of the top gaming companies both at home and abroad, but its servers are so bad that they are always disconnected and malfunctioning, and are nicknamed "potato servers". How can this be tolerated?
The studio doesn't lack this little money. With its financial resources, it can just build a data center. Why should it cause players to complain?
Damn potato server! It's just that Brother Ba is stingy and doesn't want to upgrade. As long as Brother Ba is willing to spend his private money, the server can be upgraded to a better one.
Even a little exaggerated...
Isn't there a million people online at the same time in "Don't Leave After School"? It's no problem to have these one million players playing on the same server!
(End of this chapter)