Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 840: Chapter 799: Choose Your Tribe!

The next morning.

Familiar people, familiar places, familiar office.

The Deserted Island Game Company starts its morning meeting again.

Bob sits in the main seat with a serious face, as his bad premonition was confirmed as expected:

Yesterday, the number of active players in “Iron Fist” dropped by more than 30% in a single day.

Even during the evening hours, when it’s inconvenient to play “Pokémon” outdoors, the number of active players in “Iron Fist” was down by 24% compared to the previous day!

...

This was just the first week since the launch of “Iron Fist”!

One can imagine the impact “Pokémon” had on “Iron Fist”.

And the impact is not limited to that—

“Reduce the weight of the ‘The Ruins Escape’ project themed with running, and shift more resources to ‘Grand Slam’ and ‘Bowling Paradise’.”

The executives present nodded in approval.

They never thought that, after the persistent test, “Pokémon” would become so enriched compared to the early access version!

It even directly triggered a trend of night running—the relevant topics became hot spots on the Internet last night, and are still being heatedly discussed by netizens, with significant impact.

So the overlap with the “running” sports form is too high.

Offset competition!

Anyway, it’s not the first time, and getting used to it will be easy.

*

At this time, another hot topic on the Internet is the complaints from overseas players.

It’s not European and American players complaining that the Eight Sides Headband has not been launched, and they can’t play the game—this content is outdated for Daxia netizens.

The latest complaint is:

“Why wouldn’t there be Spirit Beasts spawning in my nearby park?”

“To catch small pets, I have to run to the city park in the city center. That’s too far! And there are too many people! More than ten people fighting for one pet is too hard to play!”

“What about shopping malls? Aren’t small pets supposed to spawn in pedestrian streets, shopping malls, and residential areas in Daxia? Why aren’t they spawning here?”

…

Aside from Daxia, Izumo, Baekje, and miniature-sized countries like Manjiaci and Temasek, almost all other countries have similar complaints only to varying degrees.

Yet Cloud Dream is very efficient. After going to work, they give an explanation for the first time:

[In response to user feedback from some countries on the Internet—Spirit Beast spawning locations are too scarce to fully meet player demands, and we apologize for that.]

[However, Cloud Dream has no intention of treating players differently. The current situation is simply because we can obtain relatively rich and detailed map data of Daxia and some surrounding countries, making it easier to set Spirit Beast spawning locations.]

[For overseas map data, Cloud Dream’s information is incomplete. To ensure that users can play the game in a safe environment, Spirit Beast spawning locations tend to be conservative, and will continue to be optimized. We ask players for their understanding.]

—–

Playing in the same time zone, Daxia players are the first to rush to the comments section to join in the fun:

“Let me translate for everyone: Sorry, I’m not familiar with you.”

“I’ll help translate too: It’s all for your benefit!”

“I say Cloud Dream is just too careful. For such a small Spirit Beast, as long as it doesn’t spawn in the middle of the road, there should be no safety issues.”

“Not only is it not a problem, but when I took Qiutu out shopping yesterday, it even noticed the traffic light changes before me and reminded me with its tail.”

…

After a while, overseas players also arrived in the comments section:

“Maps? That’s it? You should have said something sooner! I could have uploaded it for you!”

“Yeah, you just need to launch a recording program, and I’ll go out now and scan all the maps around my house for you!”

“Don’t worry about environmental safety! Just spawn randomly, we’re all adults, we won’t chase pets into someone else’s house, right?”

“Can this be more dangerous than a shooting?”

…

Overseas players reacted strongly.

But Cloud Dream would not take such a drastic approach—letting players directly scan the maps around their homes is too sensitive!

Not to mention how other countries’ governments would view it, even ordinary residents who don’t play games wouldn’t want their surrounding environment to be casually photographed and uploaded to the Internet.

The map data is also not valuable—high-precision satellite scanning can fully obtain such data.

So taking on the risk of opposition and protest for this matter was not worth it at all.

Lincoln’s plan was: to use publicly available maps from overseas countries to let players mark “Safe Areas” on the public map, announce it for three days without objections, and then set it as the spirit beast spawn point.

It would take some time, but the game was not yet officially launched, so it didn’t matter if it was delayed for a few days or more.

—Of course, the game being not officially launched did not prevent the events that should be held during the official launch from starting ahead of time.

Just one day later than [The Legacy of the Ancestors · The Scroll of Mountains and Seas], the [Monster Tavern Conquest War] began.

*

Turner hadn’t fully adjusted to the time difference yet, so he didn’t sleep well at night, getting up a bit late this morning.

After opening his eyes, the first thing he did was put on the Eight Sides Headband to start game mode, then clenched both fists and stuck out his two middle fingers against the air.

The “Pokémon” map immediately appeared in front of him.

But Turner just glanced at the map before slumping back into bed, deflated.

“Sigh! Why is it only in Germany…”

“At this rate, are you guys going to take a whole month to get here…”

Turner complained weakly about the missing spirit beasts, then rolled over, got up, and washed up.

Since his main fan base was in Europe and America and they could only watch Pokémon helplessly, his live streaming of catching pets directly downstairs at the Cloud Dream was undoubtedly eye-catching and fresh, with great broadcasting effects.

So, of course, he had to strike while the iron was hot!

As for his victories in “Battlefield”…

He’ll worry about that at night, tonight.

…

Half an hour later, Turner re-entered the Eco-Culture Creative Park, followed by a French college student studying in Daxia, holding a stabilizer and mobile phone to help him live stream.

Turner pointed to the golden toad on his shoulder and introduced to his fans as he walked:

“You see, this is no ordinary golden toad!”

“This is a five-star golden toad! I’m not sure about the current situation, but last night, it was a world top-tier spirit beast.”

“It’s just a pity that my hand speed was a bit slow, and the other five-star spirit beasts were all taken by others, I only managed to grab this golden toad.”

“Don’t judge it by its appearance, it’s very strong!”

…

“Hold on… What’s going on over there?”

Turner didn’t walk far before suddenly noticing that not far ahead, many players had gathered on a lawn.

—The lawns in the park were not ordinary ornamental lawns found in common parks, but more expensive and labor-intensive lawns with more blades and stronger growth, suitable for walking and picnicking by the park’s artistic workforce, so stepping on it was not prohibited.

Of course, at this time of year, the original grass had already withered, and only a layer of winter wheat grass lawn had been spread by the staff, which was a standard operation by now.

Turner curiously ran over at a brisk pace, approaching the edge of the crowd and peeking at the scene.

He saw a thin sapling in the middle of the lawn, breaking through the soil and growing slowly, stopping only when it reached over three meters high.

But it immediately began to grow horizontally and became thicker, even causing nearby players to back away, making room for the increasingly thick trunk.

By the time its growth stopped again, the sapling had become a stout, thick, over-three-meter-high tree stump that could be hugged by several people.

Everyone was curious about what this was, when the “tree stump” suddenly grew door and window shapes on its front, and then…

With a “creak” sound, the door opened.

Everyone immediately realized: there must be some good stuff in there!

But just as they were about to rush in, a system prompt suddenly popped up in front of them—

[Monster Tavern has appeared, conquer this tavern for your tribe!]

Please choose one of the following three tribes, the choice cannot be changed within the month:

[Xuanyuan], [Shennong], [Jiuli]

——

“???”

“XuanYuan… ShenNong… JiuLi?”

“What are these?”

Turner relied on the built-in translation system to read these somewhat tongue-twisting terms for him, but he had no idea what they meant. @@novelbin@@

He also didn’t understand: why did the players around him suddenly get so excited, their eyes lighting up!