Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 137
Chapter 137: Chapter 135: Does This Law Firm Really Exist?
Translator: 549690339
From players to anchors, to media, the entire gaming world sprung to life.
Some couldn’t wait to start conjecturing the plotline.
Some imagined those fleeting streets in the racing screens, wondering if they could be explored on the open map.
Some even tried to guess the sale price of the game and its potential sales volume.
Gradually, the most significant discussion emerged: can I get to play this game?
There are many players looking forward to this game; in fact, no one in the gaming world is not curious about it, everyone wants to enter the game and have a look.
But the problem is, with only five million Mirage Consoles available in the market currently, it’s a significant concern.
According to the promotional information, the game will be released simultaneously with a new batch of consoles; can I manage to get one?
While scalpers have faced a significant backlash, console procurement is not just a matter for the gaming circle.
Many non-gamers will also participate, for a chance to make a quick profit.
So it’s safe to say, the Mirage Console will still be a hot commodity.
If I can’t get the console when it’s time, do I still need to buy the game?
What for— to add it to a collection?
So for the following two days, apart from anticipating and discussing the release of ‘Assassins’ Alliance’, the gaming world repeatedly echoed one sentiment, “Lincoln, hurry up and make more consoles! More consoles, faster!”.
Compared to most male players’ unrushed urgency, a lot of female players and casual gamers in Camille Victoria’s live streaming room expressed their worries.
Especially after the final shots of the promotional material, where Lincoln, the producer himself, engaged in a stunning Unparalleled combat in the crowd.
Heavy-duty players were simply amazed, even left breathless, their hearts pounding, yearning to be in his position.
But most female and casual gamers thought: can we really manage the difficulty of this game?
Lincoln has already explained that there will be dynamic difficulty adjustments in the game, but there must be a limit in dynamic adjustment, right? They have never played a gunfight game; would they really be able to complete the game?
Camille Victoria had to use herself as an example, repeatedly assuring everyone with her closed beta experiences; it would definitely not be a problem! Even if you have never held a gun, you can still become a sharpshooter with a hundred percent accuracy!
Even for players who don’t like gunfights, there are many other enjoyable aspects in the game, they will love it!
Ultimately, she condensed it into one statement: as long as you’re not on a tight budget, you can safely make a blind purchase!
After her constant reassurances and persuasion, her live streaming fans finally put their hearts at ease. But when they planned to buy the game, the same worrisome question posed a problem again—what if they couldn’t get the console?
This worry persisted for the whole day.
Until the next day, when Cloud Dream announced the quantity for the next batch of Mirage Consoles to hit the shelves this Saturday, this worrying sentiment eased quite a bit: an ample five million brand-new Mirage Consoles available!
With that, by the time ‘Assassins’ Alliance’ is released, the total consoles in the market would reach ten million.
The most eager players should be able to get their hands on one.
Players were rubbing their hands with anticipation, just waiting for Saturday to arrive.
During these two lively days of rampant discussion among players, some other events also transpired.
On Friday night, Lincoln attended a meeting with the Daxia Ancient Architecture Recording and Protection Foundation in a hotel conference room that Leonard had booked.
Originally in the plan, the Foundation’s name only included “Recording,” not “Protection,” as Lincoln felt he might not be able to undertake it.
But later, persuaded by Old Master Liang, he changed his mind, adding the words ‘and Protection’ to the name.
As Old Master Liang put it, it wouldn’t require Lincoln to invest more funds.
Because many researchers would rather endure hardships and squeeze out even a small portion of the fund in order to provide some protection for ancient arcmtectures, to extencl tne time tney remam In tne world.
Lincoln and Mavis together developed a program, which, based on photos, videos, and scan data from various angles, can directly model ancient architecture in the virtual world.
Even though some human involvement is still required for fine-tuning afterwards, it undoubtedly greatly improves efficiency and thoroughly demonstrates to the attendees the potent assisting ability of the Mirage Console in recording ancient architecture models.
During the meeting, Lincoln met many idealists who passionately committed the best time of their lives to such an uncertain cause with ardent hearts.
They witnessed the decadence and destruction of ancient architectures first-hand, running around and shouting out trying to save them, but the results were always too little too late.
In the end, they could only pessimistically face the reality and turned to witness and record everything.
If they could not preserve it, at least they would record it, proving that these ancient architectures had once existed, and they had been so beautiful and intricate.
Such burning and pure souls left Lincoln deeply in awe, which led to his decision—increased funding!
It’s impossible for him to be physically involved, traveling around the country with them; if he really participated, it would be nothing more than causing trouble for them.
It’s more useful to provide more funding instead!
500 million a year, for him now, it’s just like a drizzle!
Boss Lin is now making tens of billions a week.
Besides, the money invested in the foundation can be tax deductible!
Boss Lin waved his hand, the foundation’s activity budget was doubled directly to 10 million a year!
And from now on, only those engaged in the recording and protection of ancient buildings can keep up with this, the investment will increase year by year!
Although it’s still far from enough to save all the ancient buildings in the country, and even still just a drop in the bucket, it’s more than adequate for the current members of the foundation to conduct research activities.
They can even fulfill their wishes, not just limited to recording, but selectively investing in some of them for certain maintenance and renovation work.
As for this scale, it will be up to Old Master Liang Xingchang to oversee.
Master Liang is also planning to elect two seasoned professors by vote to discuss these matters together.
In addition, on the day before, another incident related to Lincoln happened, but unfortunately, he couldn’t witness it in person.
At five o’clock on Thursday afternoon, in the offices of Xiajing Sanwen Media, Xu Wen was still sighing deeply.
Ever since the earliest batch of media outlets on Lincoln’s blacklist, Sanwen Media’s situation has been getting worse and worse.
Losing their reputation is just a part of it, with the loss of fans, declining views, decreasing advertisers, and even some employees starting to resign… It seems like they’ve entered a vicious cycle.
More than once he’s thought, perhaps he shouldn’t have taken the money from NetDragon in the first place.
If he hadn’t taken NetDragon’s money, he wouldn’t have slandered Lincoln, if he hadn’t slandered Lincoln, he wouldn’t have been blacklisted, if he hadn’t been blacklisted…
Sigh!
Thousands of words all boiled down to a sigh of regret in the end!
Before he could finish his sigh, a hastened footsteps approached quickly, the newcomer knocked hard on the door twice, then opened the door urgently.
Xu Wen found that it was the receptionist who came.
Without waiting for his question, the receptionist said anxiously, “Mr. Xu, a policeman is looking for you, saying that he’s here to deliver a court summons. ”
As if a bucket of cold water was poured down his head, Xu Wen’s heart tightened, “Court summons? Who is suing us?”
“It seems to be Cloud Dream.” The receptionist was very nervous, but due to professional ethics, she still asked clearly about the circumstances, “Cloud Dream is suing us for infringement of reputation rights.”
Xu Wen’s throat felt dry and he didn’t know what to say.
In the end he just got up numbly, followed the receptionist out of his office, and took the court summons and the indictment from the judicial policeman’s hand.
The judicial police officer once again announced the content of the subpoena, urged Xu Wen to be sure to appear in court on time, and then left succinctly.
Leaving Xu Wen back in his office, staring blankly at the court subpoena in his hand.
After staring blankly for a long time, he finally reacted, took out the indictment, and carefully read it. Unsurprisingly, the plaintiff’s demand was for compensation and an apology.
After thinking about it, he decided to first find out which law firm the defendant’s lawyer is from, to see how strong the law firm is.
If it’s an ordinary law firm, he might as well find a law firm to file a countersuit!
He had been holding back his resentment for a long time now, not choosing to sue actively was already a concession, now he’s being provoked, does he think he’s a pushover?!
Otherwise, why out of all the media outlets, they chose to sue his Sanwen Media?!
Of course, if it’s a well-known law firm, he might consider admitting his weakness and seeking pretrial reconciliation.
He dialed the judge’s assistant’s number on the court summons, and asked who the defendant’s agent lawyer was.
The judge’s assistant, holding back a laugh, read out the name of Cloud Dream’s proxy law firm to Xu Wen:
“Daxia Awesome Law Firm.”
Xu Wen was stunned, what? Isn’t this Lincoln’s photoshopped official seal?
Could it be that we made a mistake, there is a real law firm named like this?
That’s impossible, what law firm would be vulgar enough to have a name like this?!
But the court wouldn’t lie to him, would it?
Since the court accepted this case, they must have confirmed that the plaintiff’s proxy law firm is real and qualified, this can’t be faked.
So, were we wrong?
The lawyer’s letter from Lincoln back then wasn’t just made up, he really found a law firm, and the childish official seal was real?
Xu Wen fell into deep confusion, the more he thought about it, the more he doubted life..
