This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 253 - 172: The Auto Repair Industry Going Sky High (Part 2)
After all, if he didn’t miscalculate, he could fix this kind of damaged car in no more than 10 minutes.
"Huh?"
Zeng Dexing turned his head, looking incredulously at the master, and asked, "Master, you play this game too?"
"Why can’t I play it?"
The old master blew his beard and stared, "Do you think I’m too old and dim-eyed to play the games you young people play?"
"No... I just..."
Zeng Dexing stammered, trying to defend himself, but the master waved his hand and said, "Alright, I know what you’re trying to say."
"These video games, I definitely don’t play them usually, after all, I’m old and can’t understand most of them."
"But ’Speeding Frenzy’ is different, this is my specialty, my old craft! If I can’t understand this, wouldn’t all these years have been in vain?"
"Moreover, I don’t just play this game for passing time, it’s also to make money..."
Make money?!
The master’s words left Zeng Dexing completely astounded.
This master he recently apprenticed to looks at least in his fifties. It’s already beyond his expectations for someone this age to play games, but what did he just hear?
Playing games can earn you money?
What does this mean? During the day he repairs cars, and at night he’s either a game companion or a game trader, or a power-leveler?
You’re really something!
The master’s strange look naturally didn’t escape the old master’s notice, and he chided unhappily, "What are you thinking? When I say earning money, I mean opening a shop and repairing cars in the game!"
"Opening a shop and repairing cars in the game?"
"Exactly!"
"Traditional dining industries are now integrated with the internet, and have started with services like food delivery. So why can’t our car repair industry integrate with the internet too, and repair cars in games? It’s only reasonable, right?"
Zeng Dexing: "..."
It made so much sense that he was speechless.
Through the master’s explanation, he finally understood what opening a shop and repairing cars in the game meant, and what the master meant by making money from playing games.
It turns out, in the game ’Speeding Frenzy’, the physics engine is extremely realistic and powerful, and the cars are fragile and get damaged upon collision.
If the car is broken, it needs to be repaired!
Thanks to this game’s realistic physics engine, the repair process is not much different from real-life car repairs.
Among the players, how many actually know how to repair cars?
If someone doesn’t know how, they have to find players who can repair cars or seek help from NPCs.
NPC repairs are expensive!
It’s more cost-effective to find players to do the repairs, and what’s more, once agreed upon, you don’t even need to pay game coins, regular customers can directly scan a code to pay in cash.
"Two or five yuan at a time doesn’t seem like a lot, but fixing a car in the game doesn’t take much time either."
The old master explained to Zeng Dexing that in ’Speeding Frenzy’, the more experienced a repairman is, the faster they can fix the cars.
Because they can identify the problem at a glance and know where to start quickly, like him, seasoned repairmen are quite in demand in the game.
Small or big damaged cars, fixing seven or eight or even ten in an hour is no big deal.
Every night, by working for one or two hours in front of the computer, earning seventy or eighty yuan isn’t difficult at all.
"You can earn that much!"
"It accumulates, although the unit price is low, the volume is large, and with many regular customers, you can earn more."
The master told Zeng Dexing that he has an old buddy who doesn’t even work at the repair shop anymore and spends every day in the game fixing cars.
As a result, his salary is higher than when he worked at the repair shop, easily making ten thousand a month, and if a bit more diligent, three or four ten thousand is not a problem.
"Awesome!"
Zeng Dexing couldn’t help his envy upon hearing this.
Making so much just by playing games at home? That’s fantastic!
This car repair is really a great industry, finding work offline and doing part-time online, earning double for one skill, it’s simply too cool!
"Hehe!"
Seeing that the young man was allured by his few words, the old master immediately showed a mysterious smile.
Young people, they’re too naive!
Even though everything he said was true, there was one thing he didn’t tell Zeng Dexing.
And that is that the impact of the game ’Speeding Frenzy’ on the auto repair industry isn’t just as simple as finding a part-time job online.
Now coming to learn auto repair?
Good good good!
This is clearly someone who hasn’t suffered yet and doesn’t know how harsh the future employment environment is.
...
Chen Ba was aware of the Automotive Repair Vocational Skills Competition held by Feixiang Internet Cafe and also sponsored a 20,000 yuan prize.
Don’t ask why he sponsored it.
If asked, it’s just that he felt apologetic, after all, his creation ’Speeding Frenzy’ offended quite a few people in the auto repair industry.
How did it offend them?
This needs to be talked about after ’Speeding Frenzy’ became popular, with the blossoming of auto repair teaching posts and entry-level to advanced guides on community forums.
The destructive power of these things isn’t terrifying, purely guides and teachings are everywhere online, but these combined with the game ’Speeding Frenzy’ and its realistic physics engine...
Oh no!
This has turned into specialized software for training auto repair workers, letting everyone learn basic auto repair skills.
The auto repair industry suddenly had tens of thousands of newcomers who were theoretically proficient, albeit somewhat awkward and clumsy in practice, could still fix things given enough time, what does this mean?
It means the auto repair industry has suddenly become the most competitive!
It’s about to roll up to the sky...
Technically skilled and experienced auto workers can still hold their ground and keep their jobs.
But those who were just shams, lacking technical skills and experience, or auto repair apprentices, have been so squeezed they can’t even afford to eat.
In the past, repair shops would still give apprentices opportunities to practice, but now basically, they don’t.
The reason is simple...
If you send an apprentice, the customer will say, "Forget it, his skills aren’t even as good as mine!"
Or the customer stands by pointing things out, making the apprentice nervous and afraid, causing them to take forever to fix one car. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Even worse, the customer does it themselves and then has to pay a labor fee to the shop, sarcastically called "paid practice," and the shop owner is too embarrassed to charge.
The number of ’Speeding Frenzy’ players isn’t large, at most reaching millions.
While it seems like a million players have a minimal impact on billions of people, isn’t it possible that the auto repair industry itself doesn’t have many people?
The number of people in the industry is at most ten million!
And among these ten million, you have to eliminate those who do training or are bosses, sitting in offices without actual responsibilities.
So when you do the math, the actual auto repair industry has only a few million people. Based on this scale, suddenly having a third or a fourth of "Zhao Kuo" auto repairers enter the scene would definitely create a huge impact.
"In Jiangchuan, 1,270 new auto repair shops opened in half a year!"
Lu couldn’t help but laugh and said, "It’s too competitive, too competitive! I can’t even imagine how these people curse Ba privately..."
Ba is extremely heinous!
He created so many theory-rich auto repair workers, but the key is that ’Speeding Frenzy’ can continuously train newcomers, making the auto repair industry overcrowded.
If they don’t curse him, then who will?
Car companies will thank Ba, thinking ’Speeding Frenzy’ is a great game. But people in the auto repair industry, especially those whose livelihoods are threatened, don’t think so.
Cutting off someone’s livelihood is like killing their parents!
This sentence is the true portrayal of many people, and even though ’Speeding Frenzy’ hasn’t reached the point of cutting off anyone’s livelihood, it is incredibly unpleasant.
"If one day there are too many reports and the game gets banned and taken down, I won’t be surprised at all!"
Chen Ba sighed.
’Speeding Frenzy’ has been reported so many times, it’s a bit like ’Divine Grace Continent’.
It’s just that ’Divine Grace Continent’ opened up a new path and eliminated a batch of conservatives. While it affected their share, it also added new shares to the cake.
’Speeding Frenzy’ didn’t add any new shares, so it’s normal to be resented and reported.
