When Jiang Qiao arrived at the backstage lounge, Zhao Mingwei had been surrounded by three doctors in white coats. He was very conscious, but his physical condition was a little bad.
Now Zhao Mingwei doesn't even have the strength to stand up, and the doctor has to help him sit in a wheelchair. The worst part is his left arm, which, according to the doctor's examination, is likely to be fractured.
"Doctor, can you wait a little longer?" Zhao Mingwei raised his other hand, which was still movable, and opened and closed it to show that he was really fine.
The noise on the stage was so loud... Queen May's voice could be heard even in the lounge behind the scenes. The first sentence Queen May said immediately caught Zhao Mingwei's attention.
"Thank you again, Holy Spirit. Next, I have something very important to announce."
"Contestant Zhao, I suggest you go to the hospital first. You can watch the recorded broadcast of the official press conference of Holy Spirit afterwards, or watch it directly on your phone." President Yin took a look at the VR device that Zhao Mingwei had used before. Although the doctor judged that Zhao Mingwei's fracture was caused by excessive movements when playing VR games, and he had not rested for a long time, which caused this state of exhaustion.
But Yin always felt that something was not right.
"Let's take him to our audience seats." Mo Shigui, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Even if we send this guy to the ambulance now, he will probably find a way to jump out."
"I would never do such a horrible thing." Zhao Mingwei muttered.
Finally, with the doctor's permission, Jiang Qiao pushed Zhao Mingwei's wheelchair to a viewing area specially prepared for Holy Spirit players in the Upper City Stadium.
"Hey, why is Xiao Ye sitting here?"
"Hush! Queen May seems to have something important to announce!"
The players who had previously participated in the Black Ash Knight crusade, as well as a group of specially invited Holy Spirit players, were all discussing what big news Queen May was going to announce.
Jiang Qiao took this opportunity to open his mobile phone, but the live broadcast room Jiang Qiao was watching this time was not the official live broadcast room of the holographic projection exhibition, but Chen Meng's personal live broadcast room.
Most of the people in Chen Meng's live broadcast room are Holy Spirit players, as well as players who have been paying attention to Holy Spirit for a long time and frantically draw Holy Spirit game qualifications every day and night...
Therefore, the comments in Chen Meng's live broadcast room are no longer "Is that girl a Holy Spirit official?", "Another artificial intelligence AI?", "I want to see Xiao Ye!" These comments are not even considered cloud players.
It was, 'The woman of Queen May will never admit defeat, my baby is so cute.'
'Is the public beta announcement coming? I'm so excited! I'm so excited! This crappy game has been in beta for half a year, and I've been staying up late every night to get the qualification, and I'm almost getting dark circles under my eyes! '
'Open beta! Open beta! Open beta GOGOGO!'
The most common comments Jiang Qiao saw in Chen Meng's live broadcast room were about people looking forward to the unlimited public testing of Holy Spirit. This was the news that all the players who were paying attention to Holy Spirit wanted to hear.
Unfortunately, Jiang Qiao also wanted to conduct an open beta test, but Hai Lan, a half-baked God of Devouring, simply could not handle so many players, so Holy Spirit was afraid... that it would never be possible to conduct an open beta test in the true sense in this lifetime. The number of players could only increase slowly as the players in the game defeated one powerful enemy after another.
The news announced by Queen May today is still enough to make all the Holy Spirit players and players who want to become Holy Spirits very excited, that is...
"Holy Spirits, from today on..." Queen May paused when she said this. Jiang Qiao could already vaguely hear the audience below shouting in unison, "Open beta! Open beta! Open beta!"
But Queen May's next words instantly turned the burning enthusiasm of all the Holy Spirit players into bone-chilling frost.
"The Holy Spirit Game Mall will be officially launched from today!" Queen May spoke with great excitement and anticipation.
But the moment they heard the six words "Holy Spirit Game Mall", the audience seats were filled with an eerie silence, looking at the audience who were still raising their hands and cheering, wanting to jump up with excitement, and the audience who were frantically brushing the words "open beta" on the barrage.
Jiang Qiao saw a series of '?' characters in the live broadcast room.
Queen May was also stunned by the players' sudden change from enthusiastic to monk-like reactions.
She thought she had read something wrong, but Queen May remembered that she was reading according to the script given by Jiang Qiao...but the players' reactions were too terrible.
It was quiet, so quiet that it almost made Queen May feel uneasy. Normally, there should have been waves of applause here.
Fortunately, Queen May saw Jiang Qiao at the back of the audience. She looked at Jiang Qiao and asked him if he had said anything wrong.
In this scene, Jiang Qiao actually wanted Queen May to ask the players of the Holy Spirit a question... that is, "Don't you have a wallet?"
But Jiang Qiao still held back and didn't do anything stupid. This kind of reaction was what Jiang Qiao had expected, so he gestured to Queen May to continue speaking as planned.
As for the Holy Spirit players' reaction to the launch of the game mall system, Jiang Qiao could tell from the identical sighs on the faces of Mo Shigui, Caramel, and Hei Guo Zhu Rou beside him that this decision was... disappointing in the eyes of the Holy Spirit players.
"Now all online games have a shopping mall system. It should be no problem for Holy Spirit to launch a shopping mall, right? Aren't you all complaining that Holy Spirit is too conscientious and you're afraid that the official will go bankrupt?" Hei Guo Zhu Rou complained in a low voice at this time.
"It's understandable that game companies want to make money, but the key is to see how well the game store performs. That's what I'm worried about."
Mo Shigui is not opposed to Holy Spirit opening up the krypton gold system. Now there are many Holy Spirit players who spend cash to buy gold coins in the game. What Mo Shigui is worried about is that the Holy Spirit officials are finally going to start making money officially.
The biggest reason why the reputation of an online game collapses and players think the planner is a rip-off... is actually just one, that is, the game company needs to make money, and the game planner needs to meet the revenue targets given by the superiors. When all these capital operations begin to be promoted, especially an MMORPG online game will start to become "scamming".
Mo Shigui also knew that there were some very conscientious games abroad, but this did not apply to domestic online games. Dispute was the simplest example.
Although Dissidia is a foreign game, the domestic operating company was quite well behaved in the first year of its launch, and the game store only sold some costumes with no attributes, as well as mounts and the like.
Things started to get more and more deceptive later on, with those costumes with attributes, various holiday gift packs for the whole family, various overly powerful titles, and even weapon crafting required krypton gold.
It’s okay if you don’t spend money, but you will always be a little weaker than the top players.
Dissidia has been very restrained, which is also due to the extremely successful Dissidia League competition, making this game's popularity unmatched in the world.
This means that Dispute's revenue targets can be achieved solely by relying on the demographic dividend of the player base, without the need to launch various kryptonite props to damage the game's reputation.
But what about the Holy Spirit
This is what Mo Shigui is really worried about. The technical strength of Holy Spirit is at least ten times that of Conflict. He really doesn't believe that this game can be created by just an artificial intelligence.
The costs of the game's early production and mid-term operation and updates all require a large amount of funds to maintain. Currently, there are only 130,000 players of Holy Spirit.
Even if the subsequent server expansion doubles the number of players of Holy Spirit, this number of players is still not enough for the game to recover the initial development capital, not to mention mid-term operations. Maybe the public beta of Holy Spirit can do it, but... Queen May obviously has no intention of announcing the public beta.
So the real reason for Mo Shigui's worry is... How can Shengling, a game company, make its money back? How can it make money after making its money back
During the half-year closed beta test, if it weren't for the "tax" levied on Holy Spirit's gold coin transactions and the launch of the Holy Spirit Fund, Mo Shigui would have suspected that the game company behind Holy Spirit would have gone bankrupt.
As for Mo Shigui's series of questions, Jiang Qiao's answer was that there was no need to make a profit.
Because the production cost of the game Holy Spirit is zero, the server maintenance cost is about three thousand yuan a month, which is not enough. The monthly expenses of Hailan, Queen May and the five knights are at least twelve thousand.
It was indeed very expensive, and it put Jiang Qiao on the verge of bankruptcy, but Jiang Qiao could afford the expense personally.
So the question is... How much money can the Holy Spirit make after the mall system is officially opened? Jiang Qiao is sure that it is definitely in the millions, and if the number of server users increases again, it will definitely be in the tens of millions!
Are all these Qianjiang Bridges used for storage? No! Of course not…
Mr. Yin is right, the game Holy Spirit is very ambitious, and Jiang Qiao is equally ambitious. The Holy Spirit Fund was created to create a system for interaction between the Holy Spirit and real-world finance!
As for the specific method...
“Please don’t worry, Holy Spirits. We guarantee that the Holy Spirit Mall system will…” Queen May paused for a moment when she said this.
But this pause caused the ridicule of the players around Jiang Qiao, especially Hei Guo Zhu Rou, who imitated someone's tone and said something with a weird expression.
"We promise that we will never sell any unbalanced props that increase game values in the game store," said Heiguozhurou.
"Haha, this is the line said by the crappy planner during the public beta of Dissidia, right? Lao Hei, you're going too far." Caramel rarely laughed at this time.
As old players of Dispute, they all know what Hei Guo Zhu Rou is up to.
When most online games are launched in the game store, they almost always make this guarantee, that is, they will only sell things like fashions and mounts.
But everyone knows the final result.
So these veteran online game players thought this was what Queen May wanted to say.
But... Queen May's next words once again caused all the players who were still joking to fall into a strange silence.
"All the money earned should be given back to the holy spirits!" Queen May's words not only put the audience into silence.
The planners and developers of other games were also confused. The first reaction of a group of online game developers was "This artificial intelligence is crazy!" or "The actor who plays this role is crazy!" or "This is just a marketing method of the Holy Spirit!"
Are you kidding! Games are made to make money, and the krypton gold system is also made to make money. There is absolutely no game in the world that will return the money earned from the players' pockets to the players.
But the game of the Holy Spirit... works.
Because if the game Holy Spirit participates in any award selection, it can win the Best Free Game Award.
(End of this chapter)