Chapter 113: Taotao Mall
When he left the room, Zhang Yi stuck two paper sticks made of toilet paper into his nose, and kept muttering in his mouth.
"The last time I was with these two women, I had a nosebleed, and this time, I bleed a lot!
I can't stay here anymore, and if I continue like this, I don't know if I'll hang up because of excessive bleeding.
Or go out for a walk, let the cold wind blow, and lower the temperature on your body.
When I walked downstairs, I met the mother and son, the little boy was about five years old, and he looked very cute.
The little boy who was jumping up and down saw Zhang Yi walking towards him, his little face was full of doubts, and he shook his mother's hand and said: "Mom, Mom, look at my brother if he says it in the fairy tale book, the pig's nose is stuck in the onion, pretending to be an elephant!"
Hearing this, Zhang Yi stumbled and almost fell to the ground, fortunately, he had a strong control over his body after practicing martial arts, and he stabilized his body in embarrassment, and took advantage of the situation to touch the little boy's chubby face.
He said angrily: "Brother, this is a nosebleed, understand!
The young mother, looking at him, said softly, "I'm sorry, Tong Yan Wuji!" held back the laughter that was about to burst out, and quickly left with the little boy.
However, thinking about the stunning scenery in the bedroom, he felt that his blood was not shed in vain.
Learning art is different, it's so amazing, I smacked it in my mouth, but I didn't see it all, a little regretful!
On April 30, 1999, players who entered the Internet café discovered the legendary online game and carried out the first large-scale update since the launch of the server.
There are no changes other than the original charging method.
A new class, the Assassin, has been added to the game, and the introduction simply says: the Assassin is the king of the shadows.
Added guild battle system, siege system.
The Wandering Merchant will sell one-time consumable items, such as candles to light up the map, cherubs that slightly increase their health, and imps who increase their attack power slightly.
Added subclasses such as fishing, mining, medicine gathering, cooking, blacksmithing, enchantment, alchemy, etc.
The in-game mall has added an auction house, players can sell the materials, equipment, and consumables obtained from fighting monsters, and the gold coins obtained from the sale will be deducted by the game official 10% of the auction income, and the rest will be owned by the player.
There are a lot of updated contents, full of several pages of instructions, which dazzle everyone.
Open the login page, look at the dozens of sets of servers on the screen, alas! This has added new servers, no way, there are too many players, as long as there is a queue for login, the official will immediately launch a new server.
The first month of the new server is free, and there are still a lot of players who like to try new ones, and after a month, the official charge operation, the transfer service will be opened, of course, the transfer service is charged, and you only need to charge a monthly card.
At the beginning, the operation team thought that the profits were already amazing by relying on point cards and monthly card fees, but they did not expect that under the earnest teachings of the young boss, they found that there were so many tricks in the original charges.
For example, dozens of consumables have been added, each of which requires gold coins, and although the price is not expensive, there are many types.
What's more, people who are used to using consumables will slowly find that they can't do without these things at all when they level up, fight monsters, and PK. You must know that everyone has a habit: from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift.
And these things all need gold coins, and the gold coins obtained from fighting monsters, if you want to buy these consumables, you can't make ends meet.
Alchemy skills rely on the materials obtained from collecting potions, which can be used to create some powerful potions to increase the player's HP, attack and defense.
Enchantment skills provide players with an opportunity to strengthen their equipment, and advanced enchantment skills will greatly enhance their equipment and weapons.
As for forging, a large amount of various ores obtained from mining can be created, in addition to fighting bosses, another way to get the best equipment.
The emergence of these sub-positions has greatly enriched the content of the game, but players have gradually found that there are fewer and fewer game coins in their hands, and the gold coins obtained from fighting monsters and auctioning game materials and equipment cannot meet the needs of players at all.
The large amount of consumption brought about by leveling and cultivating sub-professions, and the pitiful amount of income, constitute a huge consumption gap. For a while, the game currency in the game also rose, giving rise to a large number of players who specialize in business.
Careful players found that the long-famous micro-hardware and software mall has quietly added a website link to an independent mall, which is named Taotao's shopping mall, and the professional classification is extremely fine. The trading of virtual game currency is just one of them.
Among them, in the virtual game column, the first place is the legendary online game gold coins, after entering the account and server in the game, you can directly use the money to buy the gold coins in the game, after placing an order, less than an hour, the gold coins will be automatically sent to the player's game warehouse.
The game also uses the swiping method of the whole server announcement to announce to all players: Taotao Mall is the only officially recognized virtual currency transaction method, and all transactions in the mall are officially recognized and protected.
Players who like to be merchants see a lot of business opportunities in it, register on Taotao Mall, and after strict review and certification, sell the in-game income after the mall.
The official does not restrict the trading of a small amount of gold between players, but limits the number of transactions per day, as well as the maximum number of transactions per transaction, which leads to large gold transactions, which can only be carried out through the official.
Supposedly, such strict measures will ensure that players are suppressed from each other.
But it turns out that the level of domestic players taking advantage of loopholes is impressive.
Some merchants, in order to avoid the handling fee of the official mall, have successfully avoided the restrictions through a large number of newly created game accounts.
After noticing this phenomenon, the official immediately updated the new clause, and the gold coin trading function must reach a certain level of the game before the gold coin trading function can be opened. Game account under the same ID card, if you frequently trade coins.
Not only are the game assets not officially recognized, but it will even lead to the serious consequences of confiscation of illegal gains and account closure.
From May 1, 1999, after the game was upgraded and Taotao Mall was launched, Bai Jie, who was in charge of the company's finance, found that the most profitable game monthly points and point cards in the past were actually in second place.
The game currency transaction of Taotao Mall has seized the first place in the company's revenue in the way of latecomers, and it is still growing rapidly.
This drastic change surprised people who were not optimistic about the virtual currency trading in the mall at the beginning.
Zhang Yi did not blame the company managers who questioned him at the beginning, after all, such a business method is unprecedented, and people can't think of a reason to be popular. I didn't expect this virtual currency to be so popular once it was launched.
As a game operator, the micro hardware company can scavenge amazing wealth from the majority of gamers just by moving the mouse and entering some numbers.
What's even more terrifying is that gamers spend a lot of money, and the game currency they buy will quickly be consumed in the game, and if they want to continue to develop game characters, they have to continue to invest and continue to consume, which simply constitutes a closed-loop ecological structure of commercial consumption in virtual games.
If you think about it carefully, it's really terrible, just through a legendary online game, the micro hardware company constitutes a consumption system, kidnapping all gamers, in this system, production, consumption, contribution to production income, etc., is only for the growth of in-game characters.