I'm just an internet cafe owner

The story mode is very long because StarCraft combines the original first and second games. In the three storylines, without any restarts, it takes about three days to complete.

However, even with a blank slate, this time it's impossible to guarantee a first-time completion of the game, because it's too difficult.

In the game mode, two people can easily complete the game, and many levels can even be completed without taking damage or incurring losses. However, in the realistic mode, facing real enemies, even this invincible brother and sister in the game are somewhat at a loss.

After all, the campaign mode can only be completed solo, and the strongest team is the one with the blanks combined.

Because everyone's playthrough speed is limited, many players are talking about StarCraft, but they're not talking about the same storyline at all.

On TT.

Subaru Natsuki: "I'm finally close to rescuing Kerrigan."

Tina: "Your speed isn't up to par. My Kerrigan has already slaughtered through the humans."

Kinji Toyama: "The sacred Kara connects us, making us fearless!"

Accelerator: "What's wrong? You're going to take two X's and go fight someone in close combat too?"

Kinji Toyama: "The Protoss's opening cinematic was so exhilarating! Even I wanted to go and fight the Zerg swarm. Enough said, the sacred Kara connects us!!"

Shubi: "You must sever your connection with Kara!"

Kinji Toyama: "What's the joke?"

Hugh: "I won't spoil it for you. Just enjoy the game. You'll understand eventually."

Bai: "My soldiers can't hold on any longer!!"

Bai's sudden remark caused a brief silence in the TT group before it suddenly became interesting.

Shirogane Miyuki: "My Templars have suffered tremendous losses."

Tatsumi: "My troops have suffered heavy losses!"

Minato Namikaze: "I need to regroup my troops."

Fujimaruka: "+1"

Spider: "Open the door! Shadow Guard!"

The rows of +1s left Kinji Toyama completely bewildered. What kind of riddle game were these people playing?

After the game was released, most people weren't in a rush to complete the story mode; most were focused on PvP or co-op missions. And after some people chose the Protoss faction while playing co-op missions, all of the above points were made by High Priest Artanis.

In co-op missions, if a player chooses the Protoss faction, Artanis will activate his "Love Your Soldiers" effect whenever their units are attacked. Because the resemblance to this is so strong, it has become a topic of banter among players who have played co-op missions.

Chapter 513 Live Streaming Platform

"I didn't expect everyone to like this game so much..."

Inside the internet cafe, Liu Yuan observed the online time of users playing various games. Currently, the most stable online games were DNF, LOL, QQ Speed, and CS.

How to describe StarCraft? Although its online playtime isn't the highest, it's very stable.

Liu Yuan originally thought that games with complex controls like StarCraft wouldn't be that popular, but now it seems that not only are they popular, but many people are having a lot of fun playing them.

The principle is simple: the large units in Red Alert are all in mod games, and mod games don't have much balance to speak of, so just laugh it off.

But StarCraft is a strange game. Although the Terrans are the weaker side in the storyline, they are not weak at all in PvP. They can actually go toe-to-toe with the other two factions.

Besides, this game has a very low learning curve; anyone with hands and brains can play the 12D fast-paced style. You can win in daily player-versus-player (PvP) battles, and sometimes even against the computer in PvP.

More importantly, everyone has played Red Alert for too long, and StarCraft has both spaceships and monsters.

Some players build Ultralisks to rampage through the battlefield, others play Terran and focus on urban development, and still others play Protoss with their swarms of Zealots. But there's one thing they all have in common: whether it's Red Alert or StarCraft, they all have their 50-yuan friends.

Besides that, it's probably many people's interstellar dream, right? People in many worlds don't have the ability to fly out of the universe. Even if they acquire technology and power in an internet cafe, they can only go beyond Earth to take a look.

For them, StarCraft was their first interstellar war, and the thrill of experiencing it firsthand was indescribable.

Indeed, this is the case; many players engage in daily practice and communication within the game.

Currently, it's not appropriate to hold competitions in internet cafes, but there are quite a few other things that can be done besides competitions.

Liu Yuan looked at his online store; he could see that adding anything to the internet cafe required a purchase. Previously, with fewer users, Liu Yuan hadn't considered live streaming.

He now has one main store and four...

A branch store and a Game of Life World exclusive store.

With customer traffic already exceeding 100,000, it's indeed a good time to come up with some interesting things to rake in the small change from customers. Little does he know that many customers make a fortune as middlemen, but due to internet cafe regulations, they can only spend their earnings at the internet cafe, which means they can't spend a lot of their money at all.

"Perfect timing... let's take advantage of the new game's popularity to launch the video system!"

Liu Yuan purchased a video system, something that couldn't be bought for a mere 100,000 yuan like novels, animations, TV series, or office software. This system took up a game purchase quota, but in Liu Yuan's view, the benefits of purchasing this system now outweighed those of playing the game.

The new game has just been released, and I'm also going to start a live stream to see what kind of things the players will do.

In simple terms, the video system is a video portal website that Liu Yuan created. Internet cafe customers can publish their own categorized content on the portal website, and they can also start live streaming on this website.

Videos can attract others by posting your own edited videos. Whether it's a cool trick or a basic guide, you can post them.

Live streaming, broadcasting interesting aspects of your life, etc., are all acceptable.

However, everything Liu Yuan set up was paid. While browsing the website, it was free, but back in his own world, it cost 20 yuan per hour.

Nobody's watching? That's not a problem at all. Liu Yuan has a monopoly on this project; take it or leave it.

The live streaming function has also been launched, and players have been given the permission to create their own competitions.

Yes, Liu Yuan doesn't plan to get involved in competitions. After all, there are too many different games out there, and playing the same game with different people is just plain unfair. Plus, the returns from this kind of thing are too low, so Liu Yuan is too lazy to bother.

Let the players do it themselves; it'll increase player activity while you make money passively.

Previously, there were few customers and the internet cafe didn't have a full range of games, so Liu Yuan didn't dare to invest money in this kind of thing. Because it was difficult to attract an audience, it was basically a money-losing business.

But now, with enough people and online games, and with a large customer base and new customers constantly joining, it's estimated that breaking the million-customer mark is only a matter of time.

Now is the perfect time to get these things.

"Boss? Have you put anything new on the shelves again?"

Liu Yuan uploaded the video platform when it was shut down. Today, Alicia didn't have any games she wanted to play and was looking at other world fashion magazines when she discovered this new thing on her computer.

Upon opening it, I realized it was just a regular video website.

"Pfft~ Boss, are you going to do a live stream?"

Alicia saw the live stream page on the video website and was somewhat tempted.

Hearing Alicia's question, Liu Yuan nodded: "Yes, and also to increase our connection with our customers. How about it? Do you want to start a live stream, and upload a few videos for fun?"

"Me? I'm not good at games~"

Alicia knew herself well. Compared to the customers, and even compared to the staff, she was terrible at the game. As the manager, she couldn't even beat Bronya.

I'm not good at games, so I can only try my best at work.

"Who said we needed to play games? Besides, who told you that internet cafes are only for playing games?"

"Hey? Isn't our internet cafe only for playing games?"

Liu Yuan looked incredulous: "Who said that? Don't we also have office software, movies, anime, and light novels in our store?"

Bronya, who had already finished playing the Headless Horseman game, took off her glasses and calmly replied, "Boss, according to statistics, the usage rate of office software is less than one in ten thousand..."

Throughout the entire internet cafe, since the office software was first introduced, many people from other worlds have used it. But if we're talking about someone who's consistently used it... it seems like only Gan Yu is one of them? People who come to internet cafes either play games to their heart's content or kill each other to their heart's content.

Gan Yu came to the internet cafe to have a good time, but Zhong Li once said that the efficiency of Liyue's management team had improved dramatically because of this office software. Also, although Gan Yu played few games, it didn't mean he didn't play at all.

Back in her own world, she became obsessed with building houses, and the second super-large floating structure that appeared in the sky above the Liyue Sea was built by Gan Yu in her spare time.

According to Zhongli's estimation, it would probably take Ganyu five or six hundred years to build the building she envisioned. But that's not a big problem, she's an immortal.

Upon hearing this data, Liu Yuan calmly replied, "As long as people use it and buy it, this thing will be useful."

Bronya countered, "If the boss were willing to lower the price, I believe the office software could sell even more."

"No price reduction! We've already broken even, so we might as well take advantage of whoever we can. Wait, you guys have led us astray. Where were we?"

Alicia added, "My boss wants me to start a live stream~ Hmm~ How about I start a lifestyle live stream?"

Chapter 514 Mommy Ship Can Absorb Mommy Ship, How Can a Flying Dragon Lose When It's Rush Over Us? (Bonus Chapter)

"Hey, can you hear me?"

Alicia launched a live streaming platform, and at the same time, all players received the information that Alicia was about to start a live stream via TT.

Upon seeing this message, the guests were stunned. What? Live streaming? Are internet cafes offering this feature now?

They then clicked the link and discovered a video website within the internet cafe. This website allowed them to upload videos.

The video can also be used to start a live stream.

Some people don't know about Alicia, and those who don't know are generally people who don't pay attention to other shops.

"What? Oh, oh, oh! Hello everyone~ I'm Alicia. Starting today, our store has launched a video portal website~ On this website..."

Alicia was a little inexperienced during her first live stream. But she quickly adapted to the pace and began introducing the newly launched video platforms.

From uploading videos to browsing videos, and then to the meaning and coverage of each category.

This explanation is for those living in alternate worlds without internet. For those in worlds with internet, this platform is all too familiar. But upon logging in, wow, there are a lot of videos, but why are they all game videos? Looking closer... Holy crap? How come it has its own embarrassing history?

For example, there are videos of Red Alert 08, Moonlight III, and other AI bots competing against players. These videos, along with commentary from these AI bots and the players' hilarious misplays, bring a lot of joy to viewers.

"Look, the other side has more tanks than me. No problem, we have the skills. Watch my left and right swaying~ Hey! We won."

Players watching the Red Alert video at this moment couldn't help but recall the times they were brutally defeated by AI opponents in internet cafes. However, many people still get crushed by AI in internet cafes today, since those AI opponents with names and identities are all highly skilled.

There are quite a few League of Legends match videos, such as 96% of three attacks not crit, and 4% of every attack being a crit. Or there are videos of players playing against Faker's Zed.

"Holy crap! That was so cool!"

"Who's playing against Faker? Chelsea? Wait? Is it that internet cafe manager?"

In the video, Chelsea's Zed chases down a low-health Faker, but the low-health Faker manages to dodge all of Chelsea's attacks by using his dash, flash, and movement abilities, and then instantly kills Chelsea while still low on health.

Although watching this video costs 20 yuan per hour, since Izumi Konata released the guide on how to resell these videos, internet cafes have no shortage of funds and can just spend them.

Some people with too much money couldn't resist giving some tips.

Looking at the tips, Liu Yuan was very happy. If the video was created by someone else, the tips would generally belong to the creator. But if the video was created by a system NPC, then all the money would go to the internet cafe.

In this way, Liu Yuan got a lot of resources for free.

The live stream continued even as the video was being watched.