Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1165: Chapter 1063: Lincoln: You guys are disappointing!/Its your own failing!”_1 Chapter 1165: Chapter 1063: Lincoln: You guys are disappointing!/Its your own failing!”_1 It wasn’t until the next day that Lincoln paid attention to these voices.

Honestly, he was a bit…

dismissive.

When he was developing “Gravity”, he of course carefully studied the development of aerospace technology in various countries.

In the European Union, although there were also debates, their disputes mostly involved issues such as the technical route of the space station, cabin arrangements, allocation of laboratory resources, etc.

There was no disagreement about the notion of “building a space station”.

But what about America?

The most recent publicly available news Lincoln found was that their national space agency applied for funding for a space station at the annual budget review hearing.

Guess what happened?

It was rejected by the House of Representatives!

It’s not that they didn’t value the space race.

Rather, in their eyes, the importance of vying for the title of “the first country to land on the moon” far outweighed that of “launching a semi-permanent laboratory into low Earth orbit”.

Here’s an even more ridiculous comparison:

Allocate a budget for building a space station to the national space agency?

Sorry, we’re broke.

But what about allocating special funds to the Army Department for building mechs?

Sure, we’ve got money!

And a lot of it!

Just the cost for the American Army Department to reserve its custom-built “Designed and Built in America” mech from Titan Manufacturing actually exceeded the first round of “Space Station Construction Special Fund” they applied for at that hearing.

After all, it was a luxury bespoke model and Titan Manufacturing’s first product, so Lincoln happily charged them double the price!

At first, Lincoln had considered designing a space station for America in “Gravity”, even if it was just an outer shell for the players to see it explode.

America does have tens of millions of players after all!

However, after reading the news collected by Mavis, he wasn’t even bothered to make the shell.

Instead, he deleted this part of the content entirely.

So, the entire role of America in “Gravity” was simply the originator of the space crisis, by blowing up their own spy satellite, in the opening communication channel.

Even the imaginative Lincoln Countermeasures Group even debated whether the “spy satellite” in the game was Lincoln hinting at them from afar that he already knew that spy satellites had been watching the Titan Manufacturing factory all along.

But that was just a coincidence.

Lincoln did indeed know about the spy satellites and guessed that Titan Manufacturing would be watched.

But he would not hint at anything subtly with the game.

Why bother?

If he were really unhappy, he would have already posted about it on the overseas Internet, and directly tagged the President of America.

As Lincoln sat in the restaurant, eating the breakfast that Yue Pengju brought over, he continued to read the news summarized by Mavis.

Of course, the breakfast wasn’t made by Yue Pengju, he merely delivered it.

After moving into the villa, Lincoln finally started living a horribly capitalist life, hiring for himself a total of five chefs who are good at different cuisines, and no longer needs to mess around himself, nor order questionable deliveries.

This was also the security team’s suggestion.

They all hoped that Lincoln’s eating habits could become healthier and even offered to introduce him to top chefs and nutritionists.

Lincoln wasn’t much interested in nutritionists, but he was very interested in chefs, so he agreed.

The crazy thing is: except for the interviews and recruitment, Lincoln rarely saw these chefs.

Yue Pengju would always appear silently, taking over from the chefs to deliver the food from the kitchen to the table.

Lincoln had told him several times that he didn’t need to do these odd jobs, but he just couldn’t persuade him.

Eventually he had no choice but to invite him to eat together.

As Lincoln ate, he surfed the internet, marveling once again at the convenience of the Eight Sides Headband.

He no longer needed to use one hand for his chopsticks and one hand for his mobile phone.

At this point, the hottest topic on the Internet was still aerospace popular science.

This trend was overwhelming.

Lincoln even saw an interview with a professor from the Aerospace Academy by an official media outlet!

The game was only just released yesterday, and the interview was conducted today, the response could not said to be slow.

Then, some netizens, who usually remained silent on the Internet and just surfed, suddenly emerged, throwing out a bunch of dizzying formulas and hand-drawn images, sharing their achievements.

If it wasn’t for the hashtag #Gravity added at the end of their posts, Lincoln wouldn’t have realized they were discussing a game.

But these dry topics, which normally very few people would like to see, now receive a large number of likes, and they began to communicate enthusiastically through this channel, getting to know each other.

On the other hand, the hot streamers of the past now seemed to be much quieter.

Even Yi, a well-known “headliner activity streamer”, who played wild in the live broadcast, just barely maintained the effect of the live broadcast.

After ending the transmission, he quickly faded away.

For those streamers who are not as popular as him, the effect is even worse.

It’s the next day, and there’s not much of widely circulated gameplay tips produced yet.

The entire plot of “Gravity” is too compact and the game process is too serious, leaving no room for amusing activities.

Most of the streamers had a full day of broadcasting and still couldn’t achieve a program effect that equated to when William was floating around Earth in space for over 5 hours, desperately asking his viewers to let him commit suicide.

When William’s “orbital trajectory” dropped into the upper atmosphere, he was as cool as it gets as he created an air tail flow with his body.

Although it only lasted a short while before his spacesuit was ignited due to the rapid friction and William himself was burnt charcoal in less than 3 seconds, and then turned into ash and disappeared into the atmosphere in the following few seconds…

But such a creative way of death had brought an explosive effect to his program!

Lincoln even went and gave him a like.

“What about game media?” Lincoln suddenly thought of it.

Whenever Cloud Dream released a new game in the past, all the game media would go wild for a while, the ratings, analysis, play experiences, and game guides were produced endlessly.

But after looking around for a while, he had yet to see a single popular review, instead, it was a bunch of science and technology media that were raving about it.

“A lot of game media outlets haven’t published anything yet.” Mavis licked the leftover sauce from her lips, “Those who have published, their data isn’t very good, Mavis also thinks that what they’ve written is not interesting!”

“Can you help me check a few?”

“No problem!” Mavis nodded.

Several articles immediately popped up in front of Lincoln’s eyes, he quickly skimmed through them while eating, and easily understood why the game media hadn’t made a fuss this time—

The game “Gravity” was just too peculiar, unlike any previous game from Cloud Dream.

It was because Lincoln and his team put too much energy on “realism”, “experience” and “scenery”.

The playability can be questionable.

“Game Base” gave a particularly apt comment, stating that it was a “masterpiece of cinematic games”.

If traditional game carriers were used, there would be no gaming experience to speak of, it could even result in a huge flop.

However, the virtual environment, due to its ability to provide players with an immersive space experience, elevated this game from the floor to the ceiling.

Such comments obviously could hardly win over players immersed in the vastness of the space journey, hence the lukewarm response.

Moreover, hollow compliments about the grandeur of space and the thrill of survival in desperate straits receive equally scant attention.

—no matter how well they praise, it could never be as profound as the players’ personal experience, so it’s naturally hard to impress the players.

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As for the customary “special strategies”…

Whether it’s equipment maintenance or orbital calculations, they are beyond their capabilities.

“Okay.” Lincoln closed these pages.

“Then let’s switch to a science and technology media carnival, it’s not a bad thing.”

“Master, hurry up~ Mavis has finished eating! “, Mavis sat on the stool, hurrying Lincoln along by swinging her little legs.

The “Space Dance” competition is about to start.

Although it’s still a while before Mavis’ performance, the little one wanted to get there early to learn about her “competition”.

Lincoln chuckled softly to himself but didn’t say anything.

He quietly sped up his eating pace.