Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1284: Chapter 1157 Release Date and First Camp_1 Chapter 1284: Chapter 1157 Release Date and First Camp_1 It’s a habit of Cloud Dream to release a new game within a week after the trailer is launched.

The trailer of “Homeward Journey” was released abruptly on a Tuesday.

If they waited for seven days, it would be next Tuesday.

Cheryl somehow felt that it doesn’t quite fit to release a new game on a workday.

Moreover, she was convinced from early on that the player types for “Homeward Journey” and “A Quiet Place” barely overlapped, and would not severely compete for players.

On the contrary, the distinctly contrasting gaming styles would bring a unique fresh experience to the players.

Therefore, she set the release date to be on Saturday.

Since the hype was already at its peak and the promotion was fully deployed, she decided to strike while the iron was hot and release it now!

However, before that, she held a lucky draw first.

Excluding Cheryl and those who dropped by to help, the permanent development team for “Homeward Journey” consisted of about 34 people.

Cheryl waved her hand and generously announced, “Everyone draw freely!

Just leave me one at the end!”

Everyone quickly picked a ball each from the box.

In the end, Cheryl looked at the 32 yellow balls and one blue ball in their hands, and turned to look surprisingly at the draw box.

There was only one last ball remaining in it.

No need to ask; it must be blue.

She speechlessly took out the last blue ball, glanced at the other unlucky duck, and sighed, “Alright, it’s our turn.”

“Next, everyone get ready for the game release.”

After saying that, Cheryl opened a Teleportation Gate to exit the office.

“Where are you going now with only one hour left until the game release?” her deputy asked.

Without stopping, Cheryl stepped directly into the Teleportation Gate and disappeared on the spot.

Before the Teleportation Gate disappeared, Cheryl’s voice drifted from the other side: “I’m off to see the Princess!”

“Huh?” Her deputy, also a woman, was taken aback.

The Princess often visited the company and everyone interacted with her more or less.

Everyone felt she was a very nice and friendly person, not arrogant or aloof.

“Isn’t saying she’s going to ‘see the Princess’ a bit of an exaggeration?”

The guy next to them was the reality check: “She’s going to ask the Princess to live-stream.”

“If the Princess streams with the boss, it could add at least 10 million sales to the game.”

“If you ask around in the gaming circle, you’ll find many are willing to kowtow for such an effect, let alone just saying a few sweet words.”

The kowtow ceremony was long gone.

Nowadays, a formal ‘audience’ just meant slightly more elaborate etiquette.

As for Cheryl, she had no knowledge of these etiquettes.

—She was just going to act cute and make a pitiful plea.

Considering that Shuihua was immersed in her college entrance exam preparations, Cheryl took advantage of this and got closer with the Little Princess.

As long as Lincoln didn’t interfere, her success rate would be high!

*

An hour later, “Homeward Journey” was officially released.

At this moment, the total presale volume of “Homeward Journey” was 43.66 million copies.

The current sales volume of “A Quiet Place” was 102 million copies.

Jason breathed a sigh of relief.

That was a close call.

They almost reached half of their sales before the release.

As for what happens next…

Leave it to fate!

The sales of “Homeward Journey” started to rise rapidly again.

“The Toxic Girl” figurine was officially out of print.

Huang Liang Town welcomed a massive influx of players.

—Compared to starting all over again with a new mode, people preferred to continue with their trial progress.

The fans who were looking forward to Princess’s live-stream felt a bit let down.

Because Camille Victoria did not show up.

She had promised Cheryl, but she didn’t want to steal all the attention.

She planned to play with Lincoln in the evening.

The current hype should be seized by those who make a living as streamers.

Naturally, Cheryl had no objections.

—As long as Camille Victoria was willing to stream, Cheryl was fine with anything she said.

Cheryl even pretended not to see Lincoln next to her and invited the Little Princess to have a big meal at noon.

She’s treating!

Camille Victoria smiled and patted Lincoln, who had a look of confusion, and replied, “You have to work overtime for the game’s release, let’s do it another day.”

Cheryl gave an OK gesture and left.

The Little Princess was saddened by her own promise.

– She had to hold back and wait until the live broadcast in the evening before she could play the new game.

Seeing this, Lincoln laughed and took her to a different place to join in the fun.

The virtual world is so big, there’s always something exciting happening.

*

Thanks to Little Princess’ deference, the heat of the release day for “Homeward Journey” didn’t concentrate.

All the streamers successfully benefited from this round of popularity, enthusiastically logging into the elevator in Huang Liang Town, and heading to the next area –

[Sky Rail Platform].

Only Super Tomato hesitated a bit.

He was still outside the sci-fi version of Chang’an City, pondering on how to bypass the Modified Human Police and Law Enforcement Robots, and sneak into the city!

If he went back now, not only would he have to run for another 30 hours, but also he would miss the major event of the players, which would be a pity!

After several chapters of the “Chang’an” series, it had a considerable number of fans, many of whom were more eagerly anticipating the new chapter of “Chang’an” than the new game “Homeward Journey”!

In the “Chang’an” section of the Cloud Dream Forum, a pinned post has been opened for everyone to communicate.

The discussion group – [First Ascend Camp], which can accommodate five thousand people, was also quickly full.

By estimation, at this moment, the number of players who had stayed up all night and were rushing here was probably in the tens of thousands!

Even hundreds of thousands!

His viewers mostly suggested that he should first go back to broadcast the new game:

“Go back and broadcast ‘Homeward Journey’, it’s a pity not to ride on such high popularity.”

“The first to rush here are all cannon fodder, definitely won’t be able to get in.

You could finish playing ‘Homeward Journey’, run back here and still catch up.”

“Yes, first see others’ attempts, you can also sum up some experiences!”

“Or you initially charge a wave, if successful then go in, if not then broadcast the new game.”

…

Super Tomato thought for a while and said to his viewers: “I made a mistake.”

“Shouldn’t have chosen a dog.”

“At that time, I only thought that dogs were tall and ran faster, but I didn’t expect that I would have to think of ways to cross high walls and checkpoints when I got here.”

“For climbing walls and sneaking in, a cat should be much better than a dog.”

His viewers responded in agreement, urging him to go back.

But Super Tomato didn’t want to run this trip for nothing, nor did he want to die meaninglessly and go back.

He opened the [First Ascend Camp] discussion group and asked: “Is there anyone outside the checkpoint now, planning to go back and first play ‘Homeward Journey’?”

“Super Tomato, what’s this about?”

“There’s no deserter in the First Ascend Camp!”

“We don’t like to hear such discouraging words!”

…

A group of role-playing enthusiasts spoke up one after another.

Super Tomato immediately changed his words:

“What I mean is: Is there anyone who chose an image that is not conducive to wall climbing and sneaking and plans to go back and change, but before leaving, they want to make a final contribution to the cause of entering the city?”

This way of speaking sounded much better, and there were many more responses:

“Me, me, me!

I chose a husky, runs really fast, but it’s also a very big target!”

“If you speak 3 seconds later, I’ll die and go back, tell me what needs to be done.”

“My wife calls me to play ‘Homeward Journey’…

need to do what, say quickly!”

…

Super Tomato expressed his guess: “I am thinking, when we were playing ‘Pacific Rim’ we were single-player, but when we sky-dived through the Time-SpaceFragment to Pandora, we would automatically enter the multiplayer game.”

“So I want to do a test: We gather a group of people, run into it from the same position, and see if we can see each other.”

“If not, then there’s nothing to say.”

“But if we can, then we can regain our advantage in numbers!”

“Once we can implement the strategy of large-scale offensives, the day of entering the city is not far off!”