That morning, Lin You got up and went to register his studio.
Before leaving, he remembered what Lu Wei from the top-secret patent technology bureau had said, and called to inform him.
Then Lin You experienced what it meant to have connections, and what it meant to have a top-tier talent’s exclusive green fast track.
He signed and stamped all the way, with almost no waiting time, and the staff took him through the process.
He even felt that before he had figured out the process, it was over.
Xiajing Bank’s interest-free loan would be directly transferred to his account in the afternoon. Even Lin You, who didn’t know much about bank loan business, thought the speed was a bit outrageous.
Money that ordinary people might not earn in several lifetimes, no matter how you think about it, should be a very long process.
But for him, he just opened his mouth, and others took care of everything for him.
“Science and technology are the primary productive forces!”
After the sigh, Lin You took out his phone and started operating.
First, he modified his Lingxi profile and added the studio name.
CloudDream Studio.
This was the final name he chose for his game studio.
It had both the ancient and profound artistic conception of the ancient Yunmeng Marsh, and the beautiful fantasy of the modern cloud dreamland.
Finally, it was a commemoration of his first encounter with Xiaomeng on the sky aircraft carrier in the clouds.
“Perfect!”
Next was the release of the multi-version compatible trial version of *Journey*. Although it only had the first two levels, it could still divert the players’ attention, so they wouldn’t keep staring at him.
Setting up tents in the city, no matter how you think about it, it’s absurd. It’s not a new machine release that you need to rush to buy.
Besides, even if it were released, it would be sold directly online, it’s just a matter of luck and speed, nothing else matters.
These people are indeed fanatical enough, but overly fanatical players are not necessarily good players.
Take Ma Lian, who rushed to Lin You’s doorstep a few days ago, he was fanatical enough, right? What was the result? Besides drawing hatred for NetDragon, it was useless, and Lin You even wrote it down in his little notebook.
I wonder if the kid regrets it now.
But he didn’t bother to care whether he regretted it or not. Turning around, he left these distracting thoughts behind, Lin You got into the car driven by Yue Pengju and happily set off to practice shooting.
No, it’s a happy outing for material gathering.
As he expected, the players had lost interest in him.
A newly registered big V on Lingxi with 20 million fans posting important updates, that naturally directly rushed to the top of the hot search without a doubt.
The players gathered at the entrance of the previous community instantly dispersed, the tents were removed, and they rushed home one after another, logging onto the official website—CloudDream Network—that he and Xiaomeng had built last night, to download the trial version of the game.
Yes, speaking of the official website going online overnight, I have to mention it again—the top-tier talent’s exclusive green fast track, you’ll know once you use it!
Everyone loves fresh traffic, and countless game streamers naturally downloaded the game at the first moment, entered the game, and competed for the most traffic.
After all, it was weekday morning, not all players could download and play it at the first moment.
But they were really unwilling to miss the first-hand news, so fishing for time and watching the live broadcast became the best choice.
The slow-reacting streamers were too late when they found that the popularity of their live broadcast room was rapidly declining.
Of course, Xia Yi’s live broadcast room was an exception. She was still slowly downloading the game, and she even downloaded only the personal computer version, which couldn’t compare to the top streamers with a full set of VR equipment.
For no other reason, it was because Xia Yi had already experienced the virtual reality version of *Journey* yesterday, which was very attractive to the audience! So even though she had already used all the beautiful words she could imagine without revealing any spoilers, she had nothing more to say, yet there were still many people squatting in her live broadcast room.
*Game Base* also worked overtime last night and released a preliminary evaluation of the game early this morning.
Because they couldn’t reveal any spoilers, they could only talk indirectly about some irrelevant things.
In this article, *Game Base*, which has always adhered to the principles of seriousness, objectivity, and three-dimensionality, rarely used a large number of adjectives such as “epoch-making, milestone, unprecedented, and unparalleled” in the article.
They praised *Journey* to the skies.
Many players believed that a lot of this was due to extra points for being the “first virtual reality game,” but their expectations were still raised to the maximum.
Not only players, but most game developers in the industry also downloaded the game at the first moment.
Their mentality was not as relaxed as the players. Because they all knew that they would face a severe test: the birth of a new game form would inevitably have a serious impact on existing game forms.
Especially this time, it was such a leapfrog development, it was a dimensionality reduction strike.
Therefore, most of them took it very seriously.
But it’s not to the point of a catastrophic collapse.
Ultimately, it’s still the special social environment that led to the influence of the industry’s abnormally rapid development.
In the eyes of game industry workers, changes in game forms, especially upgrades and iterations of game equipment, are really not something new.
From 16-bit, 32-bit machines that only existed in laboratories, to commercially available 64-bit machines, and then to the rapidly iterated second, third, and fourth generations. Which one wasn’t a huge hardware upgrade?
Then there are keyboard and mouse games, compared to gamepads, isn’t that a major change in form?
Not to mention the combination of head-mounted curved display, controller, and omnidirectional treadmill, which constitutes a complete VR game equipment. Its immersive experience, compared to personal computers and game consoles, isn’t it also a dimensionality reduction strike?
What was the result? The impact on the market was indeed significant, but to say that the original game form suffered a devastating blow? That’s an exaggeration.
They subconsciously felt that this would be another impact, another game form appearing.
It would have a certain impact on the existing pattern, but it would not have a fundamental impact.
After all, before this, there have been time and time again to prove this point, haven’t there? So they took it seriously, but didn’t regard it as a matter of life and death, they just wanted to see what kind of game Lin You had made, to get a glimpse of the overall situation, and guess what kind of virtual reality game would look like.
But NetDragon was different.
“Don’t talk about experience, don’t talk about the past, this is a matter of life and death! We must suppress it, eliminate it!”
Under Zhang Heying’s helpless gaze, the boss and senior management quickly reached a consensus. All game equipment produced by NetDragon, whether it was the latest Feilong series VR equipment or the previous generation of gamepad-controlled home game consoles that have been produced and updated until now, all refused to install and run *Journey*.
Many players using NetDragon equipment had just entered the game, only glanced around, and before they could take a closer look, they were suddenly disconnected.
Then they saw a prompt box on the device: “An unknown software project has been detected, which may threaten the device’s security, and has been terminated.”
And then it could no longer be opened.
As for the players who were slower and hadn’t had time to install it, they couldn’t even install it.
These players looked at each other, full of question marks.
What’s going on? Threatening device security?
Did Lin You send us a software virus?
(End of chapter)