Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 420 The house leaks and it rains all night
If the "Elegant Beauty" character is also added to the server, then the server's resources probably won't be enough to support three whales of that level.

Chen Zhi goes without saying. He now owns eight casinos in Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asia, where casinos are legal, the cash flow generated by these eight casinos is enough to be equivalent to eight hundred internet cafes, or even more.

As for 8L and Yiren Fengcai, Cheng Yi didn't know what they did or how wealthy they were.

However, judging from the various events in his previous life, 8L's wealth was even slightly greater than that of Feng Zhongzhuifeng in Tian Long Ba Bu.

Unfortunately, 8L and Fengzhongzhuifeng never fought each other in the same game. When 8L quit the game, Fengzhongzhuifeng had just begun to make a name for himself in Tian Long Ba Bu, so they didn't know who was stronger between them.

It's worth noting that "Wind Chaser" is Qin Fen from Zhonghai City. He owns a watch worth tens of millions of yuan, frequently causes accidents involving luxury cars worth tens of millions of yuan, and even has a private jet worth 3.5 million yuan.

However, Cheng Yi believes that Feng Zhong Zhui Feng is stronger than 8L, after all, 8L once said: Don't use your annual salary to challenge my pocket money.

This statement indicates that 8L is not very old. After all, the term "pocket money" in academic terms refers to the money that a guardian regularly gives to the ward that exceeds the necessities of life and that the ward can freely spend.

“We must find a way to solve the price problem. If these three have driven up the prices in Zone 2 too much, it’s like ripping off the rich. If we get involved in the server merge later, and someone else’s set of equipment only cost five million, while their set of equipment cost twenty million, wouldn’t that be like swallowing a fly?” Cheng Yi fell into deep thought.

In pay-to-win games, all materials are purchased from the in-game store, so the price is fixed across all servers.

However, 70% of the materials in the game "Primordial War Chronicles" are obtained by players, which raises the issue of prices.

In Zone 1, a Spirit Orb costs only 3 yuan, while in Zone 2 it's already 10 yuan. If Chen Zhi and 8L start an equipment competition, the price of Spirit Orbs will probably soar to 20 yuan.

That's a price difference of seven or eight times, which is outrageous.

Cheng Yi and a group of busybodies huddled together, waiting for 8L to respond while they began to consider how to solve the problem.

It seems we need to create a cross-server materials trading market, specifically for materials.

Players in all servers can put materials up for auction in the auction house, and players across all servers can buy them with in-game currency, with a 20% transaction fee charged.

If a cross-server material trading market is established, then the speed at which players can upgrade their weapons and equipment will need to be limited.

We can't let the rich really have no desires.

Increase forging time.

Given that the Bloodthirsty Blade weapon is now at level 16, then there should be no restriction on the forging time for level 16 weapons, otherwise it would be targeting newcomers like the 8L.

Currently, the most powerful weapon in the Primordial Era server is the Bloodthirsty Blade.

Weapons are 16, the rest are 12.

That would limit the cooldown of equipment with a cooldown of 12 or higher.

12-13, requires 1 days of forging.

13-14, requires 3 days of forging.

14-15, requires 5 days of forging.

15-16, requires 7 days of forging.

This creates a buffer, preventing material prices from skyrocketing and then plummeting in the same period of time.

Only one piece can be forged at a time, and a second piece can only be forged after the first one is finished.

一身装备有帽子、衣服、项链、腰带、鞋子、两个戒指，两个手镯，这就是九件装备，全部12强13就需要等待9天，13-14又需要等待27天，14-15需要等待45天，15-16需要等待63天。

It took almost half a year to get a complete set of equipment.

Having figured this out, Cheng Yi immediately called Kong Feng and asked him to lead the team to work overtime to complete the update.

"8L is here."

"He actually dared to come."

A dozen minutes later, just when everyone thought 8L wouldn't dare to come, 8L appeared riding the Jade Lion.

Chen Zhi stared at this guy who had made a name for himself in Legend and typed: "I thought you wouldn't dare come."

After a long time, 8L ignored Chen Zhi and simply stopped his horse a short distance away.

Seeing that 8L was so arrogant and dared to ignore his words, Chen Zhi was a little angry.

Unbeknownst to him, Qin Fen was currently hunched over his computer, diligently typing each pinyin syllable with a single finger: 【握来者割区，就事位乐击摆你，你……】

Before Qin Fen could finish typing, Chen Zhi, enraged, spurred his horse and charged over.

This outsider is really rude.

Seeing the number one warrior in the entire server, Bloodthirsty Blade, charging towards him, Qin Fen gave up typing.

Chen Zhi possesses 16 weapons, including the Dragon Slayer Saber, which is a 16-weapon weapon.

With his current strength, he simply cannot fight against him.

Qin Fen quickly dismounted and vanished from the spot with a single Shadow Step.

The next second, Cui Cui, the leader of the Imperial Guard, fell into a pool of blood once again, dropping a ring that had been enhanced to level 8.

Because many pieces of equipment use bound materials during the enhancement process, their equipment will also be forcibly bound.

Therefore, these dropped bound equipment cannot be used by the killer. If the killer does not redeem the equipment by spending money, the system will reward the acquirer with bound gold coins equal to one-tenth of the equipment's actual value and forcibly destroy the equipment.

After killing Cui Cui and Cui Yan, Qin Fen immediately mounted his horse and widened the distance between himself and Xue Yin Kuang Dao once again.

"???" This outrageous move left Chen Zhi speechless with anger.

Is this even allowed? Can't you at least have some semblance of a strong player's mentality?
This is like Guan Yu fighting Lü Bu, but Lü Bu killed Zhou Cang and ran away.

【yigeyuehouwobishani!】Qin Fen left these words behind and rode away on horseback.

Chen Zhichu, who only had a junior high school education and wasn't very good at pinyin, stared at the sentence for a long time without being able to translate it. He couldn't help but ask, "What characters is he typing?"

"He said: 'I will kill you in a month.'" The vice leader of the Mad Blade Alliance immediately translated.

[Hmph, he probably won't last a month.] Chen Zhi was already angry. He hated impolite people, and he hated this kind of guy who didn't play by the rules even more.

The news of 8L's duel with Bloodthirsty Blade sparked a lot of discussion in the gaming community. Two days later, another major event erupted in the Legend of Mir community.

The legendary number one female Taoist priest in the entire server, Yi Ren Feng Cai, deleted her account and made a high-profile announcement to join the second server of Honghuang Zhanji.

Handong University is currently on holiday, and the campus is deserted, as if only Renren.com is still operating.

Cheng Yi went to the intranet office of Handong University and asked Li Bing to call Cao Zhengze over.

"President Cheng," Cao Zheng greeted as he entered.

Cheng Yi said, "Before the New Year, your department will have to work a little harder to do something for me."

"Just give the order, Mr. Cheng," Cao Zhengze said with a smile. "Our department received so many year-end bonuses this year that we don't even need to go home for the New Year."

Cheng Yi said, "You are using the identities of players of Honghuang Zhanji to hype up the matter of 8L and Xueyin Kuangdao on various forums. You can use more intense language. For example, someone from server 3 said, 'Welcome legendary big shots to challenge me.' Someone from server 1 boasted that they would crush all legendary big shots."

"In short, we need to generate buzz around this topic. It should appear on the trending lists of Sina, Sohu, Xiaonei, Tianya, and even the Honghuang Zhanji forum."

“Okay, I understand what to do,” Cao Zhengze said. “Then I’ll go and make the arrangements now.”

[Interview with the leader of the Han University guild: Most legendary players only dare to play games that require real-money purchases; they wouldn't even dare to touch games like Honghuang Zhanji that require in-game purchases.]

[A veteran player from the third region believes that most legendary players don't earn much income, and the so-called "whales" in the legendary game are just boasting.]

The leader of the Star Alliance in District 14 boasted that their Star Alliance could easily defeat any legendary guild.

Cao Zhengze is the kind of genius at creating hype in a wicked way. With Cheng Yi's authorization, he immediately mobilized his department to start hyping the topic online.

Since rumors are being spread, there is naturally no need to obtain the consent of the parties involved.

In the past few days, many guild leaders in various servers have been quite bewildered, especially the leader of the Star Alliance in the 14th server. He felt even more wronged than Dou E. They had just barely won first place in the 14th server guild championship, and before they could even catch their breath, a legendary big shot named Ma Yanfei appeared, claiming that he would wipe them out within a month.

This is truly a case of being at home when disaster strikes out of nowhere.

"What is your marketing department doing? Huh?" In the office of Shengda Group, Chen Tianqiao could no longer hold back after hearing the news of the departure of several legendary big-name players.

During this period, they encountered a series of setbacks.

First, the number of online players in Legend suddenly dropped from over 2 million to over 1.1 million, causing many investors to take a wait-and-see attitude towards the group's prospects. This also indirectly led to a significant drop in their stock price on Nasdaq. Some even questioned whether Shengda Group deliberately hired people to inflate the online player count in order to boost the stock price. Furthermore, some people posted evidence proving that Shengda Group paid 500 million yuan to Momo Group to help them inflate the number of online players.

To be honest, Chen Tianqiao felt very wronged, but he was like a mute eating bitter herbs, unable to express his suffering.

In addition, since the closure of Momo Legend, Shengda Group's revenue has been declining, and the monthly dividends of nearly 30 million yuan have disappeared.

In the past two months, Chen Tianqiao has come to understand what it means for misfortunes to come in waves.

Recently, several of their biggest spenders in the game have all switched to playing Honghuang Zhanji. What's most infuriating is that despite fighting this lawsuit for so long, they still can't find any evidence that Honghuang Zhanji infringes on their rights.

Zhai Hui stood to the side with a look of fear on her face and said in a low voice, "Chairman, our marketing department has been working hard, but our game is a point card game, and the gap is too small. We simply can't retain those players who spend a lot of money."

"Don't we have the Dragon Slayer Sword?" Chen Tianqiao asked.

“Just like what Mr. Shi said to you last time, he, a Dragon Slayer player, can’t even beat three Judgment players. He has no experience at all,” Zhai Hui said. “I think our most urgent task right now is to add some paid items as soon as possible so that players who spend money can have a better experience.”

"Add more props that cost money..." Chen Tianqiao was tempted.

Look at the game "Primordial War Chronicles," a single level 16 weapon costs 600,000. What does 600,000 mean? How many game cards would it take to earn that much?

Zhai Hui added, "I'm currently trying to retain a few players who have spent money on in-game purchases, and I think we should also add new equipment."

“I mentioned it to the South Korean side last time, and they told us to wait a little longer,” Chen Tianqiao said in a deep voice.

Zhai Hui immediately said, "Chairman, we really can't keep following the Korean updates. The player audience is different, so the updates should naturally be different. Honghuang War Chronicles is like a leech clinging to us. If we don't get rid of this leech, we'll be drained of all our blood."

Zhai Hui's words made Chen Tianqiao's heart skip a beat.

The marketing department knows games best, even better than the technology development department.

Chen Tianqiao said, "If we don't follow South Korea's updates, we'll have to prepare for a complete break with South Korea."

Zhai Hui said, "I think the version of Momo Legend that President Chen's team rushed to finish is very good, and I think we can update it to that version."

"I'll think about it some more," Chen Tianqiao said, tempted.

The version of Momo Legend developed by Chen Danian's team has been completed, but unfortunately, Shikuang Internet Cafe did not live to see this day and was directly kicked out of Handong Province.

Zhai Hui's suggestion just now reminded Chen Tianqiao.

The fact that Momo Legend has achieved such success in Handong Province clearly shows that it has some real skills.

Legendary needs reform; otherwise, their online presence will decline day by day.

However, even reforms shouldn't be drastic. If the changes are too significant, it will also lose many loyal players.

After all, the version of Momo Legend is somewhat similar to a private server, which emphasizes speed and efficiency. Many features that consume game time have been removed, such as the time it takes to run back after death. For example, experience points have been changed to the fast-leveling system of Momo Legend. Wouldn't players who worked hard to level up before become the victims?

These are all headaches.

But these aren't the only headaches.

Chen Tianqiao lay down on the sofa, feeling somewhat agitated, and asked while rubbing his temples, "You go ahead and do your work, and have Zhou Haibin come over for a bit."

"Okay." Zhai Hui breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Chen Tianqiao was no longer venting his dissatisfaction on her.

Not long after, Zhou Haibin, head of the legal department of Shengda Group, walked in and asked, "Chairman, you wanted to see me?"

"How's the private server issue going?" Chen Tianqiao asked, frowning.

Zhou Haibin said, "It's quite difficult to solve. These private servers are hidden very well. It takes a lot of effort to find out their real identities. We've been investigating Qiufeng Legend for more than a month. The Police Association has also sent out dozens of police officers, but we still can't confirm the server owner's accurate information."

"How many private servers currently have over a thousand players online?" Chen Tianqiao asked.

Zhou Haibin said, "According to our survey statistics, there are a total of 27 companies. Three of them have more than 10,000 online users: Qiufeng Legend, Aoshi Legend, and Liangshan Legend. The rest have about 1000 to 3000 online users."

"So many? Does that mean there are nearly 100,000 people playing on private servers?" Chen Tianqiao looked up at Zhou Haibin, wondering if he had misheard.

(End of this chapter)