I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 507 The More You "Love" People, the More the Beasts "Love" You (4520)

"Thank you very much, Miss Mi."

Yu Dan smiled politely at Da Mimi, took a few steps forward, and escorted Da Mimi off the stage.

"I really lost out this time. I had to challenge someone of a higher level. My Lin Hu needs three days to recover. Mr. Yu, you have to give me the reward during the public beta. Oh, and why don't you sign me up as the game spokesperson?"

Da Mimi put away her phone with a pouty look, and under the guidance of the etiquette, she walked off the stage and sat down in the first row of VIP seats.

Liang Chaowei and Liu Jialing, a couple in the audience, had faces so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping from them.

I originally wanted to have a fight with Dami and Da Mimi on Weibo after returning to Xingang, but looking at the current atmosphere, there's no hope.

If you want to tear apart Da Mi Mi, you must first tear apart Da Mi, otherwise you will have no reason to do so. But is Da Mi's current situation really suitable for a tear?

There is a high probability of backlash from public opinion!

Liang Chaowei felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in his back and a fishbone stuck in his throat. He glanced in the direction of Da Mimi with a look of grief.

Da Mimi seemed to have sensed something. She turned around with her hand on her dress and greeted the audience in the back row while also glancing at Liang Chaowei.

Their eyes met, and Liang Chaowei instantly looked away, with the muscles on his face trembling constantly.

whispering sound.

A look of disdain appeared in Da Mimi's eyes.

What a triple-Award winning actor! He only knows how to hide behind his wife and pretend to be a good guy. What a coward.

Yu Dan walked back to the center of the stage, flipped a page of the PPT, and looked indifferent.

“Maybe many players are interested in how this game was made and what new technologies were used.”

"But we only asked Mr. Lei for 20 minutes. Time is limited. After the meeting, we will put the information on the official website of Youguo Games, and everyone can learn about it for themselves."

"Besides, technical issues are not the focus of our discussion today."

Having said that, Yu Dan paused and looked up at the audience.

When people heard Yu Dan’s words, there was a commotion at the scene.

Technical issues are not the point?
Is there any other explanation for this game?
After taking a quick look around, Yu Dan pointed to the settlement screen on the big screen.

"Someone may have discovered that Taihuang Mountain and Sea Realm is a mobile game, but it has set higher rewards for the face-to-face mode."

"In fact, this is a decision that requires a lot of courage."

“AR and VR games are new, and because of the nature of the games, retention rates are very low.”

"Nowadays, almost all large-scale mobile games are online. There is no doubt that special rewards for the 'offline mode' will further reduce the retention of this game."

Yu Dan turned a page of the PPT, and four bright red percentage numbers appeared on the big screen.

79.31%, 35.28%, 5.59%, and 2.87%.

Above each number, there are labels such as “next day”, “one week”, “one month”, and “three months”.

And below, there are four white percentage numbers for comparison.

45%, 20%, 10%, and 5%.

“Red represents the predicted retention rate of Taihuangshanhaijie, and white is the reference benchmark for excellent products in the industry.”

"As you can see, Taihuangshanhaijie's next-day retention rate is very high, far exceeding the industry's excellent baseline of 45%, and the one-week retention rate also exceeds the industry's excellent baseline of 20%."

“This shows that most people are indeed very curious about the AR+AI gaming model and are willing to try and experience it.”

"But after 30 days, many players will drop out due to the threshold of the offline mechanism and inconsistent sinking time. This is a typical 'high entry, low sedimentation' retention fault."

As soon as Yu Dan finished speaking, there was a burst of puzzled noise at the scene.

Exposing his shortcomings at the press conference?

This is so rare.

But why?

To produce the same picture, the modeling quality and computing power required for AR far exceed those of ordinary games, and the cost is dozens of times higher.

The graphics you have are good enough for AAA, so why are you working on AR? And why are you working on face-to-face games?

Are you afraid that making money is too easy?
Yu Dan read out the script expressionlessly:
“Knowing that there will be loss and activity will decrease, why do we still insist on promoting face-to-face activities?”

"Because what we make is not just a game designed to make money."

A game that is not just for making money?

Why not for making money?
For the gaming dream?
The situation in the venue was fine, since it was a press conference after all, and no one started to boo. However, many viewers watching the live broadcast had already started to boo.

"Well, another big liar."

"The second Luo Taijun who claims to be an idealist."

"Don't say that about Mr. Dan! I declare that from now on, he is my idol! Ahhh, he raised his head, so handsome!"

Yu Dan raised his head, his eyes half blocked by his long hair, and he actually had the temperament of a melancholy prince.

"John Donne said in For Whom the Bell Tolls, 'No man is an island, entire of itself.'"

“But after entering the digital age, we are becoming more and more like isolated islands.”

“Fiber optic cables and high-frequency radio waves seem to connect each of us together, but what they connect are signals and each person’s Internet account, not each other’s hearts.

“Our information has never been so seamless, yet our loneliness has never been so consistent.”

“In the age of algorithms, numbers have become four walls that lock each of us in tightly.”

"We are trapped in the content we like, trapped in the opinions we agree with, and trapped in the algorithmic choices we think are the truth."

“Regardless of opinions or facts, everyone can only see what they want to see. Even this ‘want’ is the cognition instilled in everyone by various platforms.”

“It seems that the advancement of technology has not brought more happiness and tolerance to people. Everyone is trapped in a digital prison.”

“Numbers have become armor and thorns on everyone’s body, making everyone a difficult individual to reach.”

"We no longer have parties, only guilds; we no longer have playmates, only teammates; we shout 'brothers' and 'old irons' to the camera, turn off the screen, but no one cares about each other's life or death."

"We accept all this calmly, as if these are the price we have to pay for the convenience brought by numbers and algorithms."

Yu Dan shook her hair, revealing her sparkling eyes.

“But is this reasonable?”

Yu Dan asked back softly, his eyes sweeping across the audience.

Some people are worried, some are focused, and some don't care.

Is it reasonable? Why not? Doesn’t development come at a price?

Isn’t this how human beings have come to this day? Modern life is much better than before, so why be so pretentious?

If you miss the past, go to those countries that don’t even have the Internet and see if you will starve to death.

There is a high probability that when you collected cell phones in your senior year of high school, you handed in model phones. What the hell are you talking about here?

Yu Dan shook his head slightly: "Whether it's the Internet or AI, the advancement of technology should make humans happier, not more miserable."

"No, we believe that technology never brings misfortune. What really brings misfortune is human beings' misuse of technology!"

“The Internet should be a bridge, not a wall. AI should be a key, not a cage.”

"The intimacy on the screen can never replace a real eye contact and touch in reality." "Digital companionship can never feel the warmth of skin and the measure of eyes."

"Virtual intimacy can never narrow the real distance, nor can it fill the loneliness in our hearts."

Yu Dan's tone was no longer calm, and his words were a little sharp.

"That's exactly why we insist on offering extra rewards for 'Face-to-Face Play'!"

“A good game shouldn’t make people stare at the screen for more than ten hours a day, shouldn’t make people unable to see the sun for several days—and it certainly shouldn’t make people indulge in virtual reality and ignore reality.”

“A good game should allow people to walk out of their homes, stand in the sun, meet more friends, tolerate more differences, experience more cultures, and see a bigger world.”

“Therefore, in the future public beta version, in addition to the reward coefficients for face-to-face games, we will also add more exotic animals and props that can only be obtained in real scenes and offline interactions.”

Almost everyone was shocked.

Shit, is this guy really an idealist?
Would you rather lose money than make a contribution to humanity?
No matter how much money you have, you can’t afford to waste it like this!
Not only the audience were surprised, but Cai Hao and other employees of Mile Games in the Alixia conference room were also shocked and speechless.

Liu Wei couldn't help but glance at Cai Hao.

This guy always talks about "philosophy", "temperature", "cage of cognition", "eternity"...

“True idealism is not about shouting slogans, but about creating a system that is simple enough and can provide a closed-loop feedback loop in an unknown field.”

Cai Hao seemed to see what others were thinking and spoke lightly, his tone as calm as if he was talking about the weather.

“No matter how touching the language is, their system has not completed the closed loop.”

“Innovation – application – retention – market – profit – further innovation, this closed loop is broken at the retention step.”

"Yu Dan did not provide a clear user retention mechanism, nor did he see a mid- to long-term structure for profit logic."

“Even if Youzi Technology can afford the losses and continue to operate, but cannot retain players, this kind of idealism will not have any impact on the real world.”

Liu Wei nodded slightly and was about to agree when he heard Yu Dan in the video speak.

“Any great goal, if it cannot be realized, is just the self-satisfaction of an idealist.”

“To set goals, you need idealism, but to achieve them, you need rationalism.”

“Similarly, for a game like Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm to survive and improve retention while adhering to our gameplay model, it is not enough to just rely on touching people.”

"We have to find a way to make players want to stay and enjoy it."

"Fortunately, we finally found this solution."

Hearing this, Liu Wei couldn't help but twitch his lips.

This Youguo game is really evil. I even suspect that Yu Dan's remarks were made just to slap Lao Cai in the face.

Lao Cai just said that the other party’s idealism is useless, the model has no closed loop, and there are no measures to improve retention rate.

The next second, Youguo Games said that it had found a way to make players stay willingly.

Isn't this just a slap in the face?

Liu Wei turned around and glanced at Cai Hao, only to find that Cai Hao was staring at the screen intently.

Yu Dan took a deep breath and pressed the page turner.

The word "Taiyi" composed of chains slowly appeared on the screen.

“Taiyi Chain.”

Yu Dan paused for a moment. Several people in the stands had already reacted and shouted loudly: "Blockchain!?"

Yu Dan nodded, let out a breath, and took out the real killer weapon of this press conference.

“Yes, blockchain.”

“Except for the NPCs and exotic beasts that use independent AI, every strange object and exotic beast in Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm uses blockchain technology.”

"In other words, in this game, no matter whether you catch or hatch a beast, it is unique. There are no copies!"

Two moving ear mice appeared on the big screen. The two ear mice looked exactly the same, but with a little observation, there were some differences in their colors, behavior patterns, and even expressions.

! ! ! ! ! ! !

Cai Hao's face changed drastically and he clenched his fists instantly.

Not only Cai Hao, but other people in Mile Games, whether it was Liu Wei or the chief planner of Honkai Impact 3, Yu Chengwei, and even the chief programmer Chen Zhihao who had been lying on the table half asleep, stood up involuntarily after hearing what Yu Dan said just now.

What the hell!What the hell!What the hell!

NFT?

How can it be! ?
How long has this concept been around?
Two months?
If it is really done, the "collectibility" brought by blockchain will indeed greatly improve player retention, but is it possible?

If all the beasts are unique, there could be millions of players interacting online every second! If this game really takes off, everything is possible!
Even if it is only on the chain during the "title confirmation stage", how many minting requests will be run during the instantaneous transaction peak?
10 or 100 million TPS?

How many of the most powerful Ethereum houses are there now?
How is the network consensus synchronized? What type of virtual machine is used? EVM? WASM? How many layers of parallel execution architecture are built?

How much computing power do you need to support this level of throughput?
Most importantly, isn’t this just cryptocurrency trading?
All new models claiming to be based on blockchain technology seem to ultimately lead to cryptocurrency speculation.

Ultimately, by turning game assets into real assets, introducing transactions and speculation, can we still control its ecology?

Yu Dan just spoke so righteously, but in the end he was just issuing coins! ?
It's ridiculous!

Crazy about rice?

Let alone whether they can achieve it technically, even if they can, how could DaMi agree to hold a press conference for such a game? ?

If something goes wrong, rice will be infamous for eternity!
“Blockchain is not just digital currency, Bitcoin is exactly what I just said about the misuse of technology!”

Facing the uproar from the audience, Yu Dan adjusted the microphone to his lips and spoke calmly.

“Youguo Games will not issue coins, let alone speculate on coins. At the same time, we will not allow anyone to deliberately speculate on game assets!”

Yu Dan’s face was as gloomy as water.

"I just told you that due to time constraints, we will not discuss technical issues today. We will only explain the game mechanics."

"The Taiyi Chain does not generate currency, but is proof of the survival of every alien beast in this world."

"Similarly, each person's account will be bound for life, with each person having a single account. Identity authentication information will use biometric technology. Currently available identification technologies include fingerprint and pupil recognition."

“At the same time, Taiyi Chain does not support any third-party custody, and it is even more impossible to make over-the-counter rental arbitrage.”

"The battle system only supports up to 3 beasts on the battlefield at the same time. The higher the intimacy of the beast, the better the fit between the player and the beast in battle."

"Also, the intimacy of each beast cannot be replicated, so the new owner cannot inherit the original compatibility advantage."

"The system will decide whether the beast will accept a new master based on its 'mental stability' and personality settings."

"When some alien beasts are involuntarily transferred, their combat capabilities may decline, they may flee, they may become passive, or they may even enter a permanent 'disconnected state'."

"Most importantly, we will not prohibit in-game transactions, but every transaction must be conducted offline 'face to face', and three layers of identity verification are required during the transaction process."

"Similarly, if they are people you know in real life and have frequent offline interactions with each other, the probability that the beast will agree to transfer the item or agree to temporarily go to a friend's place to 'help' is greater."

"Here's a tip. Don't forget that each alien beast is a separate AI. The more you 'love people', the more your alien beast will 'love you'."

After saying that, Yu Dan winked at the audience.

Cai Hao in the Alicia conference room took a few deep breaths.

The loop is closed.

(End of this chapter)