Chapter 19: Hurting Each Other
Wei Jia'an smiled and couldn't hide it.
βSteamοΌβ Through spells, Vera quickly learned Chinese, of course, the knowledge gained through this spell needs a little time to become familiar with it. Spells are not used how she wants, and there is no one around her who can learn English through spells, so it is difficult for someone to speak English, she is really not very good at English, and she mutters at a loss.
"Yes, Steam." Pushing the trash can he took out during the meal back under the table, Wei Jia'an sat down in front of the computer desk.
"What kind of game is that?" Vera said as she walked over to Wei Jia'an's side.
"It's not a game." Wei Jia'an clicked on the lower right corner of the screen to show the hidden icon, found the icon with a crank linkage pattern on the blue background, and explained, "Steam is an integrated game download platform, and you can find most of the computer games on it. Of course, these games basically cost money, but you can buy them while they're on sale. There are also games that don't require money, and you may not be able to play them, or you will even ask for money. β
Wei Jia'an turned his head to look at Vera, making sure that the girl was watching and listening, otherwise it would be too embarrassing for a person to talk to himself, he said: "This, this is what I said about Steam." I didn't put it on the desktop, in the start bar there, you remembered...... Then, now let's click on it. β
Click on the icon, and after a few seconds - the Steam account is being connected, and the Steam interface opens in an instant and fills the computer screen. Wei Jia'an just closed the friends bar, and the Steam news immediately appeared, he looked at the conspicuous two lines of big words on the Steam news "Publisher Sale" and "as low as 2% off" and hesitated for a moment before turning off the news, his expression was slightly subtle.
"This is the library, the warehouse means, the games you buy are here." Wei Jia'an slid the mouse around the computer screen in circles, and finally stopped the mouse pointer in the upper left corner, "This, this is the game Civilization 6 you played." And then this, this is the game I usually watch and play live ,ββ Dota 2. A game of the confrontation genre, ostensibly free-to-play, but in fact ...... There's no paid DLC or anything like that, but it's the game I've spent the most money on. β
"Since it's a free-to-play game, why is it the game you spend the most money on?" Vera asked, curiously.
"Although the game is free, Treasures, Arcana require additional purchases, and there are also summer specials. I don't know if the summer sale that can only be purchased once can be purchased twice, whether it is a bug or an ulterior motive. Wei Jia'an looked at the left hand holding the mouse, why can't I control this hand.
Wei Jia'an talked eloquently, Vera looked at the game bar on the left side of the library interface, the game bar was a long row of English from top to bottom, and she asked, "Are those games over there?" β
Wei Jia'an replied: "Basically." β
"So much?"
"Actually, it's not much."
It's all in English, and Vera can't read it, so she picks one at random and asks, "What kind of game is this?" β
Wei Jia'an moved the mouse over the game and clicked in: "Assassin's Creed." β
"And what kind of game is this?"
"The Witcher 3, a role-playing game that has won many awards, I recommend you try it when you have time."
"What kind of game is this?"
"That's it." Wei Jia'an saw a familiar string of English under Vera's slender and white fingers, he didn't click into the game like before, he quietly let go of the mouse, in order to avoid the action being too abrupt, he picked up a mandarin and peeled it, "This game, chocolate and vanilla." I kind of bought it, but I haven't played it before. The story is about the protagonist who left his hometown and decided to open a cake shop on his own, and his luggage was mixed with two cats that he used to raise in his hometown - chocolate and vanilla, and then revolved around the story of a protagonist and two cats running together. What kind of game should it be?,It's basically all dialogue.,There's another name.,Visual novel.γ β
Vera didn't ask anything more, and Wei Jia'an reluctantly put his mind at ease. It's a beautiful girl game.,Even if there's no patch installed.,If you let the girl know what's going on.,Your reputation will suffer.γ Especially after installing a special patch, the game has completely become 18+, absolutely not.
Vera was curious about the baby, and asked most of the games in Wei Jia'an's Steam library, of course, Wei Jia'an, who was in a vigilant state, had no flaws, and she didn't continue to ask: "Have you played all of them in so many games?" β
Faced with Vera's question, Wei Jia'an fell silent for ten seconds, and replied, "No." β
"Isn't the game fun?" Vera asked.
"No, I won't buy garbage games."
"Don't you like it?" It's either a game you don't like or it's not fun, or it's a garbage game, even Vera knows it.
"I like it, it's basically a game that I like, and I won't buy a game I don't like." "I'm not used to the first-person perspective, I only play games from the third-person perspective, and I don't like gunfight shooter games and never play them. So no matter how good those games are, I won't buy them. β
"In that case, you don't play, why do you buy so much?" Vera asked a very profound question at once.
"I've spent all my money on games, so why spend any more time playing them?" Wei Jia'an smiled, but unfortunately Vera didn't understand, he explained, "Don't play now, don't play for the time being, I'm busy with work and don't have time, I'll always play in the future...... Probably. Why do you buy so many games, the main thing is ...... Think about it, the original price of more than 200, more than 300 boutique games, jumping prices, bloodletting prices, vomiting blood sales, now all only a few dozen yuan, in this case you don't buy? β
Vera said, "It's so cheap, you lie." β
"What am I lying to you for?" Wei Jia'an opened the Steam store, "This is the Steam store, where you can find the games you want to play, no matter what genre it is. Here, you can order whatever genre you like, leisure, experience, adventure, action...... Click in, there is a game screen on it, an introduction below, and you can also see how other players evaluate and how the response is. On the right, there are also tabs, multiplayer, co-op, open world, click in to find tag-type games. β
"I was stolen once before, and although I didn't have a few dollars, I don't dare to charge too much money in it now." Wei Jia'an proudly said, "What game do you like, just tell me, I'll buy it for you." β
"Okay." Vera said politely.
Wei Jia'an rolled the mouse wheel and said, "This is it, special offers, these are discount games." If you look at this, a 90% discount is a discount, and it is only 6 yuan from 48 yuan. This game is 76% off, and it is only 22 yuan for 90 yuan. So, in this case, are you not impressed? β
"Really...... So much cheaper, wouldn't the merchant who sells the game lose money? "Vera doesn't understand anything.
"Losing money, of course losing money. Every time you buy a game during the discount season, G Fat loses a sum of money! As long as everyone buys it, the Spicy Chicken V Club will go out of business! The Wei family paused, "Steam belongs to the V Society, and G Fat is the founder of the V Society." β
Vera is not stupid, she said: "A merchant will never trade at a loss, and even if he loses money here, he will definitely make it back there." β
"Indeed, there are people who do the business of killing heads, and no one does the business of losing money." After Wei Jia'an finished speaking, he explained a little. FIRST OF ALL, THAT'S JUST A MEME, STEAM IS JUST A PLATFORM, AND THE PRICE REDUCTION IS A DEVELOPER'S THING. Then the game is not like a traditional commodity that needs raw materials, the game has only one development cost, of course, the money spent on publicity is not counted, when it first started to sell, the big price quickly recovered the cost, and waited until the core players should buy it, and no one bought it, and then sold it at a lower price to attract passers-by, one is counted as one, and it makes a big profit by selling it for a hundred yuan, and it makes a small profit by selling it for ten yuan.
"I see." Vera is very understanding.
After a brief introduction to Steam and switching back into the Steam library, Wei Jia'an asked, "Vera, now look at what game you want to play?" β
"I'll take a look." Vera looked at the list of games, all of which were games she hadn't played before, and she thought, "Let's play that cat game, I haven't played that game yet, and it feels like a visual novel is amazing." β
Wei Jia'an was silent.
"Why don't you talk, can't that game be played?" Vera said, "Is there a problem? β
"No problem." Wei Jia'an said, "It just feels like it may not be for you." β
"Give it a try." Vera said, "I haven't played how to know." β
Wei Jia'an was silent for a moment, he leaned back in his chair, and turned his head sideways to look at Vera, girl, you didn't mean it, it definitely did it on purpose. Since you are unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust, you're welcome, he said, "You can play if you want, but I recommend you another game." β
"What game?"
Wei Jia'an said slowly: "The fire has gradually been extinguished, but the king is not visible......