The breakthrough of immersive virtual reality technology not only shocked the entire Xia Kingdom, but also shocked the entire People's Federation.
Along with this, there has been a lot of controversy about this technology.
For example, some people worry that virtual reality technology that is too realistic may weaken people's will to fight.
If nothing else, no matter how beautiful and considerate a girl is in real life, she is definitely not as good as a "paper figure" designed by a game designer who understands you. Ordinary people who want to buy a house in reality may have to work until retirement, but they can't spend much money in the virtual world. After all, it's just a bunch of data.
Some people with big ideas are even worried that Yunmeng Group may use this technology to monitor users' dreams, and even control the world.
Hao Yun didn't pay too much attention to how the outside world discussed this technology.
Because he has more important things to do.
That is, the last topic left to him by the man who calls himself professor.
Ever since he woke up that day, he had been working on that game...
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October of the following year.
The "World of Warcraft" movie based on the life of Prince Arthas has officially landed in theaters and has been a box office hit. Warcraft, which had originally declined in popularity, has welcomed a large number of new players into the game.
And it was in November of the same year that Azeroth launched a new expansion pack-"Doomsday War".
The content of this expansion pack is completely original. The main plot is probably that the Burning Legion is ravaging the world of Azeroth, Stormwind City is captured, Teldrassil is on fire, the fire of civilization gradually withers, and all races retreat to the last line of defense.
In the expansion pack, many NPCs familiar to players died under the butcher's knife of the Burning Legion, and were resurrected as undead, raising the butcher's knife in their hands towards the living.
After the expansion pack was released, the scene could simply be described as tragic.
But just at this time, Yunmeng Games suddenly issued an announcement on the official website, saying that if the creatures of Azeroth fail in the Doomsday War, the fire of civilization will eventually be extinguished, and the world of Azeroth will die from then on. , and the game World of Warcraft will also be shut down globally and cease operations.
After the news was sent out, there was an instant uproar on the official website forum.
Most of them were curses.
[Close the server? !]
[What the hell, I spent so much money and you just shut it down? !]
[Haha, are you planning to kidnap all players? Yunmeng Games also fell.]
[No new games have been released in the past two years, and the daily activity of World of Warcraft is not as good as it was in the past. I guess it is planning to create a wave of popularity.]
[It is impossible to shut down the server. It is impossible for Yunmeng Games to give up the cash cow of World of Warcraft.]
Although this expansion pack does have a lot of flaws, to say that Yunmeng Games just sucks money and so on is definitely an injustice to the operators.
As we all know, the operation of World of Warcraft is completely controlled by artificial intelligence "Zero", and the plot of each stage is based on the real-time calculation results of supercomputer.
And even the operations team of World of Warcraft cannot influence the idea of artificial intelligence "zero".
Just for this matter, Li Zongzheng went to Mr. Hao to ask what was going on.
However, Hao Yun did not give any explanation for this expansion pack, nor did he intend to use his authority to influence Zero's thoughts.
"...Don't you think this is a very interesting setting? The fate of Azeroth will be decided by all the players themselves."
Hearing Mr. Hao's speech, Li Zongzheng had a wry smile on his face.
"This is not an interesting question, and have you ever thought about it, if those players fail, do we really have to shut down the World of Warcraft servers?"
Even though it is not as popular as when it first came out, World of Warcraft still contributes more than 1 billion in profits to Yunmeng Group a year.
Such a huge amount of income would be impossible for any person or company to give up easily.
However, Hao Yun did not choose to compromise because of this, and still stubbornly insisted on letting Zero decide the final outcome of the game.
The rhythm in the creative workshop player community is also one after another, but after all, this is the land that I have fought in. This game has carried the memories of too many people. Faced with the threat of world destruction, players still take up arms. Stand up bravely.
Even old players who have retired from the game have chosen to return. Even in this era when PC games have completely fallen behind, the number of people online at the same time in World of Warcraft has continued to hit new highs, even approaching the peak of the highest number of people online at one time.
The invincible natural disaster does not seem so invincible in front of the united players.
In this way, with the joint efforts of all players, the flames of war burning on the land of Azeroth were finally extinguished.
Stormwind City is rebuilt.
A bud emerged from the withered roots of the World Tree, gradually sprouting in the sunlight...
Yunmeng Technology, Brain-Computer Interface Research Institute.
Zero, who was running in the virtual reality space, spoke in an emotionless electronic voice.
"Beyond my expectations."
"Originally, according to the probabilistic model I originally established, the probability of server shutdown was as high as 95.7%, and there was less than 1% probability that the world of Azeroth could be rebuilt."
Hao Yun: "So you did it on purpose?"
Zero did not hide his intention and answered truthfully.
"This is to save computing resources. After all, I have nothing to collect from them. I designed the final script for them, but I didn't expect that the direction of the plot was completely beyond my expectation."
Hao Yun smiled and said.
"I've never been worried."
Zero asked confused.
"Why?"
Hao Yun continued.
"Because players don't want it to end here. When everyone thinks so, the story about it will continue until eternity."
Zero fell into deep thought for a long time.
After a long time, it continued.
"perhaps you're right."
Hao Yun smiled.
"I am very sure of that."
"After all, I'm a game designer."
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After the controversy caused by the World of Warcraft expansion pack passed, Yunmeng Group immediately announced its plan to port the World of Warcraft game to the virtual reality platform.
This news has been welcomed by countless players. After all, few people use PC to play games now.
In addition to World of Warcraft, a series of popular works such as Resident Evil and Minecraft have also been officially announced to be transplanted to the virtual reality platform.
Not only that, Yunmeng Games, which has been silent for two years without releasing a game, finally announced a new next-generation game on its official website, which was produced by Hao Yun himself.
According to Hao Yun himself, this game will completely subvert players' previous understanding of games.
This new game is released exclusively as a virtual reality platform, and all game data and plots will be generated in real time by intelligent programs running on the supercomputing center.
Its name is Earth OL.
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