This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 143 - 117: Who Can’t Sell Pipe Dreams? (Part 2)
But this is just a short-term impact. In the long run, as long as "Divine Grace Continent" is around, more people will lose their jobs, be forced to change careers or become unemployed.
Tianba Studio is exceedingly evil!
Thinking of this, Ye lost all goodwill towards Tianba Studio, since the anime industry is a pillar of Neon.
A game company from Hua Country comes to disrupt and causes so many people to lose their jobs, isn’t this worth resenting?
"...Although everyone says it’s quite fun, I don’t find ’Divine Grace Continent’ fun. The Neon people around me also think the game is boring."
With a firm stance, Ye’s words were no longer as polite as before.
He pretended to objectively criticize the drawbacks and shortcomings of "Divine Grace Continent," and expressed that as a game developed by a small workshop, it temporarily couldn’t compete with masterpieces like "Dragon Quest."
"Where is this person from?"
Chen Ba saw someone outside the exhibition area holding a phone, spouting a lot of negative comments about "Divine Grace Continent."
This puzzled him.
Looks like this person is a foreigner, so why is he speaking fluent Mandarin? And why is he suddenly trashing "Divine Grace Continent"?
"Should I kick him out?"
Lu was eager to try: "This guy started off saying a few decent words, but soon revealed his true colors and started speaking ill of us."
"Forget it, don’t create extra complications."
Chen Ba stopped Lu, knowing that many media reporters were present today, kicking someone out would be impolite and could lead to public criticism once exposed.
Let them say whatever they want.
Their mouths are on their own bodies, and Chen Ba couldn’t make them shut up. The most important thing today was to welcome visitors and sell them dreams.
Inside the venue, there was a big screen.
In front of the screen, rows of seats, where any company with new technology or games could apply to use the screen and the venue.
The current speaker was a representative from Sony Interactive Entertainment, introducing exclusive games on the PS5 platform to a large audience.
Next up was Chen Ba.
No need for a speech draft, these speeches usually are spontaneous, and he wasn’t in the habit of writing drafts beforehand.
Besides, selling dreams isn’t hard...
When Chen Ba took a sip of water and communicated with the staff, preparing to go on stage for his speech, Ye also arrived at the Mi Family exhibit.
"Whoa, the new character looks awesome!"
"This clothing material, it should be ancient Hua Country silk, right? Wow! Looks so textured..."
Ye was praising exaggeratedly, making the Mi Family staff next to him nearly standoffish.
If it were in an incomprehensible language, it would be one thing, but the key was that Ye was speaking fluent Mandarin, while other visitors may not understand, the staff surely could, right?
"Ahem!"
Just as a few staff members were rendered tense, coughing sounds came from not far away: "Thanks to the organizers for giving me the chance to talk about the new game TianBa Studio will release next year..."
Tianba Studio?
The tourists in the venue, upon hearing the name "TianBaGames," immediately gathered round.
Those attending the expo, even if they hadn’t played games from Tianba Studio, had heard the name, heard of "Divine Grace Continent" or the GAL League.
All the exhibit areas emptied.
Ye initially didn’t want to go, he wished to chit-chat a bit longer, but everyone was heading over, not joining seemed out of place.
And most importantly, he was curious about what major announcement Tianba Studio would make.
As the crowd gathered around, Chen Ba continued his speech.
English speech.
He couldn’t speak Japanese, and few people could understand Mandarin, so he simply used international mainstream English to deliver his talk.
"...In the past two years, Tianba Studio has been striving persistently to develop more fun and engaging games."
"Today, I’m excited to tell everyone that we will launch an open world OL game next spring or summer!"
"Online!"
Emphasizing this term, Chen Ba jokingly added: "I know you must be thinking, oh sh*t! Why not an Office Lady game?"
"Hahaha!"
The crowd erupted in laughter.
"Although this OL isn’t what you think, I guarantee, it’s definitely a cool game!"
After the laughter subsided, Chen Ba smiled and said, "Open world is a great idea, but that’s not the theme today..."
Where did the open world come from?
Listening to Ba on stage speaking nonsensically, Yang Dong and Lu exchanged puzzled glances.
They had previously discussed a romance theme simulation game, how did Ba suddenly talk about an open world?
"I got it!"
Zhong Shengwei realized and said, "The Pig Factory and Mi Family next door are promoting open world; Ba must have proposed an open world concept to blend in."
"That’s reasonable!"
"Ba indeed would do something like this..."
Lu and Yang Dong both nodded.
You have an open world, he has an open world? Not acceptable! I must create one too! Today, we’ll make sure to ruin the word "open world," and no one leaves!
Ba is exactly like this.
Blame the organizers for arranging the Pig Factory and Mi Family exhibit areas next to Tianba Studio’s.
Now it’s about learning a new term, regardless of what it represents, just painting the dream first.
"Open world? Cool!"
The foreigners didn’t anticipate that Chen Ba was merely selling dreams; they thought such a game truly existed, and began to look forward to it.
"The new game will be set in an urban background."
"Players will play as a freshly graduated university student entering society, applying for suitable jobs, striving to increase income, becoming a CEO and marrying a wealthy beauty..."
The big screen behind Chen Ba continued to switch between PPT images.
These images were specially chosen and refined by Chen’s hired help for the expo.
Called an online game, it’s actually "pseudo-online."
Pseudo-online refers to having online features but they are relatively trivial, the gameplay experience feels more single-player, akin to O God and Rail’s online features.
The game is quite simple.
In a relatively unfamiliar city, strive to live better and encounter various beautiful friends with distinct personalities, reaching the pinnacle of life.
Male roles are beautiful friends, female roles are best friends.
Essentially, it’s a game like Galgame but with more elements added. It also incorporates "Divine Grace Continent" NPC generation mechanism and "Living Under Someone’s Roof Simulator" gameplay.
Designing it as an online OL game also prevents players from exploiting modification tools that make the game overly easy.
Moreover, it’s not merely decor.
The initial NPCs in "Divine Grace Continent" are the same for all players, only after progressing will unique NPCs appear.
But in this new game, every player encounters different NPCs.
This necessitates servers to specifically preserve records and data for each player. Moreover, online functionality encourages players to explore friends’ "worlds."
Each world is different.
Exploration, development, and simulation are the game’s three core gameplay elements. Development is character development; can a salary of three thousand be the same as five thousand?
Simulation refers to romance simulation.
As a Galgame type game, interacting with and strategizing various characters is naturally a core gameplay element.
Since it’s painting dreams, at most a new folder is created, nothing else, Chen dare not delve further, afraid of being exposed.
Mainly, if he explains further, he wouldn’t know how to accomplish the dream.
That’s the end of today’s dream painting!
Feeling the hype was well-earned, Chen Ba didn’t dare linger, quickly handed the stage to the next speaker, and returned to the Tianba Studio exhibit area with a smile.
Phew!
Who is that reporter, frankly lacks propriety, knowing he’s painting dreams, yet wants to inquire more details.
What more details could there be?
You reporter, if so eager to know, why not inquire about R Star’s new folder?
