Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 507
Chapter 507: Chapter 490 “My World” Release Date!
Despite the low success rate, the suicidal attacks aimed at the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park have never ceased.
After all, one can see the giant dinosaurs as soon as they enter.
Throughout the night, players were using brains and brawn against dinosaurs and Jurassic Park’s security.
Lincoln watched scenes recorded by Mavis for a while, watched live streaming with her for a while, and thought before bed, “Should I upgrade the security team in Jurassic Park?”
Perhaps the secondary Intelligent Core could be put to use?
It might add some fun challenges for the players!
The next day, upon waking, the atmosphere in the player circle had visibly changed.
Interestingly, though the internet is now flooded with exposés about “My World,” there are, incredibly, still no verified facts.
Despite the absence of any solid verified information, people, based on scenes in the game’s trailer and the flood of rumors, have gained a rough picture of the new game—
[All ages], [casual game], [low difficulty], [high degree of freedom], [variety of gameplay], [seemingly limitless], [fun enough to play for a year without getting bored]…
Though nobody has correlated these keywords, in the end, everyone has formed similar impressions and agreement about the game.
It’s quite an intriguing phenomenon.
These impressions have made players burst with anticipation once again.
This anticipation has far surpassed that for “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness”.
At the end of the day, “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness” targets a somewhat niche population, and with the prior existence of the Wilderness area in “Paradise”, Hunter, although more refined, isn’t fundamentally different from it.
All these factors limit players’ enthusiasm for this game.
But “My World” is different.
Although it has been tested for 11 days, not until last night was the test server formally shut down.
Up to now, this game remains full of mystery, with very little information really revealed to the world.
Judging from its art style, this game is very unique and unlike anything ever seen on the market.
The streamers tested by everyone, though they kept their lips tightly sealed, generally gave positive reviews based on their expressions and hints.
In Cloud Dream’s promotional materials, phrases like “your world”, “my world” and “creating the world” are frequently used, reflecting a high degree of confidence.
Lastly, due to Cloud Dream’s astounding user growth rate, the number of casual players has significantly surpassed the number of hardcore players.
A combination of multiple factors has resulted in players becoming extremely anticipatory. How could they not be excited?
This anticipation has made the whole Friday quite unbearable.
For players who participated in the test, it’s not too bad because they’ve already played for ten days. They understood what the game was about. Now they are just preparing in advance. As soon as the server goes live, they can give it all they’ve got!
Most of the closed beta test players, after understanding the primary gameplay, considered it wasteful to put so much effort into big projects in the game when they knew all of their progress would be deleted after the testing ended.
They felt it would be a huge loss.
Especially for players like Shuihua who had to take classes, their gaming time was already limited, so to invest in something that would end up being fruitless, was not appealing.
Why not just go hunt in the “Hunter” world?
Hence, many test players have saved their “big plans” for the game after its official release.
Which is tonight.
But Super Tomato was an exception—he could use it for his videos.
Data deletions were no problem at all, as long as he could make it into a video, it wouldn’t be a loss.
Moreover, his architectural research didn’t pursue the size of the project per se, but continually explored the realm of creativity and novelty.
By the time he opened his live broadcast room in the afternoon, he didn’t log into the virtual world, but looked at more pictures and videos of the Forbidden City on his computer, attempting to recreate it with drawing software.
Behind him on the table, a whole bunch of building blocks were piled up, amongst which the framework of the Hall of Heavenly Purity had just been erected.
This was Super Tomato’s second video project, during which he would invite his fans to join him in creating this colossal structure.
Camille Victoria was doing roughly the same, researching how to build a large-scale ranch.
One by one, the streamers were all preparing for the official release of the game.
As a streamer who also participated in closed beta, Yi acted independent of the flock, seemingly oblivious to the situation.
When the audience asked him what other streamers were doing, Yi replied in surprise: “How would I know?”
His confusion wasn’t an act – he was genuinely puzzled.
He hadn’t spent much time in “My World.”
Yi didn’t have the patience for slowly building houses and farming, he hadn’t even built a small house, let alone large, complex buildings.
In “My World”, what he did the most was wander about aimlessly, dig holes, and fight monsters.
Yet he didn’t find much joy in the experience.
The greatest pleasure he had was when he found a gold mine while digging a tunnel. Seeing those big, bright pieces of gold excited him immensely.
After that, he became so preoccupied with mining gold that he couldn’t even be bothered to fight monsters.
Once he has successfully crafted himself a set of golden armor, wielded a golden sword, a golden axe, and a golden pickaxe, Yi suddenly felt a sense of emptiness.
He felt… like he had completed the game.
After that, Yi rarely logged in to “My World” again, but put his efforts back into live broadcasting, into the world of “Hunter”.
Even though the game was about to launch, he didn’t seem very interested – he preferred fighting and killing!
Only because of a full-time streamer’s professional ethics, he felt obliged to join in the excitement.
Streamers, players, game media, game professionals – countless people were waiting for the release time to come.
Everyone felt like time was moving extremely slowly.
At 5:00 PM, Lincoln didn’t get off work as usual, instead, he came to the “My World” development team, and worked overtime along with everyone else.
Actually, they were just waiting.
There was nothing left to busy themselves with for the main body of “My World”.
The virtual environment versions of Terraria and Witch, made in the name of MOD, were not going to be released on the same day, so there was no need to rush.
Lincoln casually greeted Randall: “What a coincidence, we meet again.”
Mavis, who was behind him, immediately couldn’t help but cover her mouth and chuckled.
Just a moment ago they had all been working together in the “Battlefield” world. As soon as it was time, Randall disappeared promptly, even faster than Lincoln.
Lincoln had thought that he was going offline to cook dinner for Little Chun.
Who would have thought, as soon as he comes over, he sees him sitting next to Little Chun, whispering and talking in low voices.
Randal also felt a little embarrassed and laughed without saying much.
Little Chun just waved her hand, signaled Lincoln to come over, and while showing him a post, said: “This post should be an imposter pretending to be an insider. Many people have believed his words.”
“Let them believe, if they want to blame someone, let it be the phony insider. As long as we are not made into scapegoats.” While Lincoln was saying this, he lowered his head to look at the post.
He had only looked at the title [My World, The Core Gameplay That The Trailer Did Not Tell You!], and he heard Little Chun say again: “However, the content he fabricated has a very high similarity to Terraria.”
“Ah?” Lincoln didn’t expect that.
He looked at the specific content of the post, and he discovered that in the words of this poster named Jason, “My World” had turned into a world fraught with hazards, and the greatest danger came from underground.
At the same time, the most precious treasures would be underground too.
Players need to keep digging down, exploring the various underground environments, encounter deformed and strange creatures, fight various dangerous dark creatures, obtain spoils of war, become stronger, then defeat stronger BOSS…
Explore, build, grow stronger, fight… cycle again and again until you face the final BOSS.
After reading the post, Lincoln was stunned.
This was more than a high similarity, it was simply an outline of the core gameplay of Terraria!
The problem was, the Terraria map had not been added to the test run at all!
Which means, this was a player who was trying to join in the fun, pretend to be an insider to troll, and fabricated the content based on their own imagination.
However, this imaginative idea coincidentally hit on Terraria!
“Should I say what a coincidence?”
“We can’t blame him for that…” Lincoln was speechless.
“Of course we can’t.” Little Chun also said with speechlessness: “This player probably thought he was making things up, so he had no fear as was posting the same post in our game platform’s forum when…”
Little Chun paused for a moment, sighed speechlessly and said: “Turns out this person had not participated in the “My World” closed beta test at all.”
“Pure guess?”
“Pure guess.”
“Well, he’s good. He should change his name to Zhen De (Joan of Arc) sooner.” Lincoln closed the post, out of sight and out of mind.
He then chatted with Little Chun, Randall about the progress of the MOD map development, stricter age restrictions for players, clearer disclaimers, and other content like that.
This way, the final hour passed slowly.
Until in the virtual office, the large countdown clock ticked past the last second.
The release moment of “My World” had finally arrived!
