This game is awesome

“349 million reservations!”

"..."

"Seize the young master!?"

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After receiving the appointment report from Development Department 2, Gu Qingshi's breathing paused.

This number is indeed a bit shocking.

The reservation here is not the "reservation" like in online games where you can make a reservation with just one click, but a "pre-sale".

Players will need to pay 60% of the launch price to complete the pre-sale - the good thing is that they will be entitled to a refund on the day the game is released.

The regular price of Baldur's Gate is 148 yuan, 30 dollars in North America, and 28 euros in the European Union. If the local tax rate is excluded, the revenue per copy of the game in these three regions is not much different for Fanxing.

If there is no large-scale refund wave, these 349 million copies of the game will probably bring Fanxing more than million in after-tax income.

This is the first time ever!

Gu Qingshi had long anticipated that the sales of Baldur's Gate would be very high this time, but she did not expect it to be this high.

The sales volume of "Baldur's Gate 3" in EA pre-sales over three years was only 250 million copies!

The pre-sale revenue will be remitted to the company's account in about three days, a total of more than 2.6 million. At the same time, Gu Qingshi suddenly fell into a daze.

She suddenly didn't know how to spend the money.

I can’t spend it all, I can’t spend it all!

"Wait, wait, I need to calm down." Gu Qingshi took a deep breath and forced herself to wake up.

If you have money but don't spend it, you're a bastard. You have to find a way to spend it.

Invest in "Stellaris: Chosen"?

Polaris Studio has the support of Yungong, so it doesn't seem to be short of money.

What about developing new games?

"Battlefield" is still being updated, and "Baldur's Gate" is also preparing to be finished, but there is no manpower.

A dangerous idea suddenly appeared in Gu Qingshi's mind:

Well, I can’t invest the money in building wonders, right?

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In the wall shrine, a stone statue holds an electronic candle, and a miniature projector on the shrine wall casts a golden sacred halo on the statue.

These shrines are arranged in an orderly manner, interlaced with reliefs. The relief murals next to them are line-carved with scenes of Victorian factory streets, and trenches and bomb craters can be seen in some places, but these incongruous statues are wonderfully integrated with the shrines.

There is mosaic glass on the windows, and under the windowsill you can see a group of people dressed as primitive people kneeling around a spaceship. The leading priest raises his hands high, as if holding some kind of crystal.

Further down on the marble floor, a row of sunken, beveled diamonds were ingeniously carved out in an orderly pattern, like a white mud floor that had just been run over by a truck.

Pei E looked at her own freshly prepared restaurant and was amazed.

Shrines, murals, reliefs, and icons, my God, this is probably the only restaurant like this in the world!

But this outrageous part is only the front hall of the restaurant, or the lobby, with the private rooms at the back.

There is only one dining table in the entire lobby, which is about 7 meters long and can be regarded as a conference table. Each seat is charged separately.

There were drinks and appetizers under the shrines on both sides, which were provided free of charge to everyone.

The overall decoration of the free private room is not much different from that of the lobby, except that there are no fancy decorations such as mosaic glass.

According to Pei'e's magical pricing and Miss Cat House's deliberate persuasion, private rooms are all free, while the front hall needs to charge a private room fee.

In order to prevent people from deliberately taking advantage of the free desserts, the restaurant adopts a reservation system - at least that's how Miss Nekoya explained it.

Yes, it is that different!

"Oh my god, Cat House, I feel like we're going to lose a lot..."

Pei E swallowed.

Miss Pei was full of worry and felt that this restaurant was too unreliable.

When she first saw the holographic projection, she didn't feel much. Now that the real thing has been made, Pei E realized how outrageous this thing is.

How could any normal person come to this weird restaurant?

Can anyone really eat in a place like this?

But Miss Maowu swore: "This is a design by a top foreign designer, there will definitely be no problem!"

You're right, but I don't have the artistic germs...

Seeing Pei'e's expression of "Don't treat me like a fool", Miss Maowu patted her chest and comforted her: "Don't worry, Pei'e, although it's only the first day of opening, we have already received orders!"

"real!?"

Pei E was so surprised that she lost her voice.

"Of course, it's still a big order." Miss Maoya's expression was serious.

There are indeed big orders, and more than one.

But...

"And where's our waiter?"

Pei E looked through the employee list and found that there were only 6 waiters in the -square-meter restaurant.

Recruiting six people in such a large space... even more cruel than a slave owner!

"For the sake of efficiency and economy, we use more advanced guidance service technology and do not need to recruit additional waiters." Miss Cat House explained calmly, pulling out a chair and sitting down.

Then, Pei E's eyes widened.

Countless golden particles danced in the air and soon gathered into a fairy with translucent butterfly wings!

The little fairy, who was only the size of a palm, was wearing light clothes. She circled in the air and said in a clear and pleasant voice, "Welcome!"

No, you guys are using a seven-digit ultra-high-precision large-scale holographic imaging system for this! ?

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Sorry, sorry, sorry, I forgot there was an update in the evening...

Chapter 259 [Ideological Education before the Final Test]

6 month 20 day.

Development Department 2 is in a meeting.

The content is quite simple, discussing the final test of the "Adventurer's Handbook" and the release of "Baldur's Gate".

Baldur's Gate has been in the works for a year and is Fanxing's first game with a large investment and production, not to mention it is a fairly orthodox CRPG. It can be said that the entire studio has high hopes for Baldur's Gate.

At this important juncture before the release, the final promotional work naturally cannot be left behind.

The key to this promotion is the "ultimate test" of the Adventurer's Handbook.

This promotional activity involves offline aspects, which is not something that Fanxing can handle alone.

Therefore, Gu Qingshi took her sister's car and came to the government building.

The municipal government had already received the news and had arranged for special personnel to wait.

If it were other companies, there might not be such treatment.

But who can blame the visitor for being "a rare genius girl in the East for thousands of years", "a new-age game developer singled out for praise by official media", "a legendary game producer", "the founder of a billion-dollar business from scratch", and "the pride of Le'an City".

The senior leaders of the municipal government are also well aware of Fanxing's style of "not asking for help for small matters, and no matter how small the matter is, asking for help is a big deal", and they attach great importance to Gu Qingshi's arrival.

Who knows, maybe this person will do something great and get promoted directly?

You see, Mr. Chen in the public security system will soon be called Deputy Director Chen!

Thirty-year-old section chief, one in a hundred! Not to mention that they promoted a new traffic law education program, which greatly reduced the number of traffic violations in the city and directly helped Le'an win the National Civilized City this year. This pilot program was even adopted by the provincial department and is being promoted.

The origin of all this has to start with the truck driving game...

With such a clear precedent, municipal officials naturally dared not be negligent.

So much so that Gu Qingshi was a little flattered when she arrived at the municipal building.

In the conference room, several middle-aged men stared at Gu Qingshi with a smile, which made the young girl feel creepy.

It was Mr. Chen who was sitting on the left who came to the rescue.

"Ahem, Mr. Gu, the police are reviewing the report submitted by Fanxing. After all, your activities are, uh... a little special."

Xiao Chen said it very tactfully.

Although their public security bureau often approves reports of large-scale mass gatherings, none of them require the use of a large number of movable holographic projections.

Not to mention that this event involves a large number of foreigners.

Le'an is an 18th-tier prefecture-level city, and I have never seen such new things before.

Gu Qingshi understood the difficulties faced by the municipal government and explained, "Our activities are limited to the vicinity of Beihai Villa and will not affect the traffic and residents' lives in the urban area."

"Uh... Thank you for your understanding, Mr. Gu, but there are some things. Uncle Luo, please tell me."

Xiao Chen hesitated to speak and called out to another middle-aged man.

This man’s surname is Luo, and he is the deputy director of the Municipal Cultural Bureau.

Director Luo did not talk about the matter first, but asked as if he was chatting about family matters: "Xiao Gu, do you live in Linguan?"

Gu Qingshi was stunned and nodded slightly.

Director Luo laughed, "Linguan is a good place. It's an old industrial area. Pollution control has been good in recent years, and the canal has been dredged again. I remember there is a Ruhr industrial area in Germany. They have developed well. We should learn from them."

Gu Qingshi nodded blankly.

She knew about the Ruhr Industrial Zone, as it was a frequent subject in geography exams. But what did this have to do with Fanxing's event report?