Chapter 68: Fairyland Digital

Nine o'clock in the morning, Tianba Studio.

As soon as Xiao Lu opened the door, he saw Brother Ba holding a paper cutter and scratching a large cardboard box with the word AMD printed on it.

"What is this?"

"The test graphics card that Su Ma sent over is said to be the mysterious 7000 series that has not yet been released." Chen Ba continued to unpack the box without even raising his head.

New 7000 series graphics card? Xiao Lu was immediately interested when he heard the term. He walked over to Chen Ba and asked, "Aren't RX7000 series graphics cards released yet? How did they get delivered to us?"

"Who knows?"

After a lot of effort, Chen Ba finally tore off the tape, took out the foam filling in the box, and placed a simply packaged graphics card in front of him to examine it carefully.

It’s really the 7000 series!

And the cards delivered this time are the top-level RX7900XTX and RX7900XT.

"What is the suffix of XTX?"

Xiao Lu was confused about the naming method of adding an X after XT and didn't understand the difference between the two cards.

"The positioning and specifications are different."

Chen Ba was too lazy to delve into the naming method of the A card. It was a new card anyway. Su Ma, at someone of Su Ma's level, wouldn't give him a second-hand card.

Handing the RX7900XT to Xiao Lu, Chen Ba said, "Take it and run the Immortal Path, and pay special attention to its gaming performance and power consumption."

"OK!"

Xiao Lu took the new graphics card and ran to test it.

Chen Ba did not follow him. Instead, he sat down on the ergonomic chair and frowned as he thought about the origin and disposal of this batch of A cards.

AMD suddenly came to us and hoped that Tianba Studio would cooperate with them in gaming performance testing of their new graphics cards. The benefit was this box of new graphics cards.

This is exactly the same as Lao Huang.

Chen Ba gained nothing from developing the game "Star Emperor", but his warehouse was filled with graphics cards.

There are N cards and A cards, public versions, and co-branded versions from Da Ren Shuo, Sad Rainbow, and Shrinking Star...

With so many graphics cards, their studio could only use a few of them, and most of them were thrown into the warehouse and gathered dust without being unpacked.

What a pity! How about selling it? But nominally, after all, it was a card given to Tianba Studio by the graphics card manufacturer to test the game performance. If I sell it, will they be angry? Chen Ba vaguely felt that it was not right.

But with so many graphics cards, you definitely can't use them all, and it would be a shame to leave the brand new unopened graphics cards in the warehouse gathering dust.

Either send it back or resell it.

Electronic products will depreciate, and the rate of depreciation is very fast, so these graphics cards really can’t be stored in a warehouse gathering dust.

He decided to say hello to these graphics card manufacturers, mainly to explain the situation and seek their opinions.

The first step is to fight Renshuo.

When Chen Ba contacted the other party and told him his idea, the other party didn't care at all and said that if he wanted to sell, he could sell it. If he didn't sell enough, he could buy more from them! "Huh?!"

Chen Ba was horrified.

It was normal for the other party to allow him to resell these graphics cards. After all, they had already been given away, so they shouldn't care how others dealt with them.

But what does it mean that if we don’t sell enough, we can go get more? “We are a game studio, not a graphics card dealer!”

Chen Ba felt insulted, so he asked angrily, "Are you serious? What's the price? Can you make it cheaper?"

Cough cough!

You have to make money to support the team, it's not shameful!

Tianba Studio and Darenshuo have a good relationship through the cooperation of co-branded graphics cards, so Chen Ba can pick up the goods from the other party at a more favorable price.

This gave him an idea.

The server of "Star Emperor" needs to be maintained, and the in-app purchase has not yet opened up the market. It is better to open an online store and sell some graphics cards to support the family through the relationship with major graphics card manufacturers.

“Since we can’t stop players from spending money on hardware, let’s develop new ways to spend money!”

Chen Ba gritted his teeth and instructed Yang Dong: "When our online store opens, remember to copy a copy of the store template into the game."

Players don't want to trade Originium and don't want to spend money? Fine, fine! Then I don't sell stats or skins, but I can sell graphics cards, right?

"The idea is feasible, but... aren't we a game studio? How come we opened an online store and started selling graphics cards?" Yang Dong was speechless.

"Well said!"

Chen Ba clapped his hands, and after a moment he said, "Normally, we can support the server by selling skins."

"But is Star Emperor normal? Do you think these players will spend money on skins? They only spend money on graphics cards! In order to support the server, this is the only solution!"

As he spoke, Chen Ba suddenly became excited.

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

Although it sounds more and more absurd that a game studio would open an online store to sell graphics cards instead of in-game purchases, Tianba Studio has a huge advantage! With their relationship with various graphics card manufacturers, what goods can't they get? Other dealers can only sell one brand of cards in their stores, but Tianba Studio, as a "relationship-based company", can sell all brands, whether A cards or N cards.

You don't agree? If you don't agree, go to the graphics card manufacturer. If that doesn't work, go to Huang and Su Ma, the chip sellers, and let them do justice.

The graphics card industry association watched "Star Emperor" shut down? Do you know anything about connections? Besides, Tianba Studio is just doing this business on a small scale, just wanting to make a little money to support the game "Star Emperor".

Chen Ba didn't think that opening this store would generate much revenue for the studio. At most, it would just cover the server operation and maintenance costs.

But that's enough.

As long as this online store exists, there will be no risk of service suspension even if players of "Star Emperor" do not spend money, and the game can continue to operate healthily.

"Then I'll go submit the information right away."

“Don’t be impatient!”

Reaching out to stop Yang Dong, Chen Ba said speechlessly: "I haven't told you yet what the name of this store is."

"Oh, right!" Yang Dong suddenly realized, "Have you thought of a name for the store?"

"I've thought about it, Fairyland Digital!"

Chen Ba expressed his thoughts and said, "Find someone to design the store template and create a few sections: Immortal Emperor's Choice, Immortal King's Choice, True Immortal's Must-Haves..."

Don’t bother with the Great Emperor or the Supreme Being.

You won’t make much money from selling graphics cards of this level. It’s a complete waste of time.

Since the store is called Xianyu Digital, the graphics cards they sell must be the best of the best, at least the kind that can help you become an immortal.

“That’s right!”

Chen Ba seemed to have thought of something, and reminded: "Every customer who places an order at Xianyu Digital will be given a CD key activation code for "Star Emperor"."

How much does a game cost? Give it away! Anything is given away! You have already spent money on Xianyu Digital, so you obviously have the "qualities to become an immortal". It would be a pity not to send a young genius like you to the road to becoming an immortal to hone your skills.

Buying a graphics card and getting the game for free can be considered as attracting new players to "Star Emperor" to prevent the game from becoming unpopular after a while.

The original slogan was "Make games great again", but you know what I mean, so I deleted this part.

(End of this chapter)