231 Eurasian Cultural Differences: Going the Wrong Way?

"Found a way to play?" Wutong was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

The interrupted uncle paused and explained, "You yourself are, you should be very aware of the difficulty of the caster's profession?" Don't you think the caster class is unreasonable in difficulty compared to the other two career paths? ”

Wutong nodded, the difficulty of the caster's career path can no longer be said to be unreasonable, but it should be said that the developers who set up the caster's career path are a little psychopathic

Not to mention anything else, just after entering the game like Wutong, a person with strange advantages of good luck has not been able to struggle out of this quagmire so far.

If you want to become a mage, in addition to the innate intelligence must reach more than 10 points, you must also raise enough to buy the entry fee of the apprentice spell book 150 silver, according to every 4 levels can be learned from the NPC mentor, 2 spells are calculated, when you reach level 20, you can master a total of 10 spells, each spell apprentice costs 5 gold, a total of 51 gold and 50 silver, of which 50 gold can be credited. In addition to the 2 spells per level 4, each additional spell you learn costs 50 gold

If you want to complete the various tools and props required by a full set of mages on the caster's essential items list, you need nearly 700 gold coins, plus tuition, a total of about 800 gold, in order to barely become the most basic trainee mage

800 gold coins is just a trainee mage's learning cost, not counting equipment, daily consumption, etc., who can play this profession?

This is what players find unreasonable, just the cost of becoming a trainee mage is equivalent to the cost of raising funds from all members of a medium-sized guild with 5,001,000 members.

Isn't this setting a clear indication that people can't play this profession? Even if there is a cash flow warrior to play, it is still a matter of the late game, is this an aristocratic class designed for those rich people?

The vast majority of players think like this, but as half a month has passed in the game, players in the Asian and American regions have finally relieved their taste, is the official "Endless" brain-dead to this extent? Set up a class that players can't play? Even if it's G, it can't be as big as B, right? And it has passed dozens of technical closed tests over the years, and hundreds of internal tests for more than ten years?

The game "Endless" is not only developed by one country and one company, but also more than 500 core scientific research institutions involved in the development.

Some people found that the complaints, troublemakers, and complaints in the official community of "Endless" seem to be all players in the Asian and American regions, but none of the players in the Europa region are complaining.

After studying the posts of Europa, the official community of Endless, players were shocked to find that it was not a problem with the setting at all, but a problem with the way they played

The problem lies in the cultural differences between Europe and Asia, where players treat Endless as a mere "game" and do whatever they want in the game, regardless of the details of the game and the background content it contains.

Of course, the pursuit of freedom is the freedom of players, murder and arson, rape and plunder, do all kinds of evil, do whatever you want, play how you want, no one will stop and limit you, because "Endless" itself is a game that advocates freedom and individuality, you can do whatever you want in the game, as long as you can bear the "consequences".

Therefore, the early Asian and American players, ignoring the rules of "Endless" and playing according to their own preferences and habits, now need to bear the "consequences":

The game progress of most Trials Islands in Asia and America is more than twice as fast as that of players in Europa, and the game progress of some Trials Islands is even more than three or five times faster than that of Europa

"Soon?" Wutong, who listened to the uncle's explanation, looked confused: "Isn't it okay to be fast?" ”

"Okay, nothing bad"

The uncle took out a piece of parchment and drew a sketch of a "well" crossroads with an ink pen on it, and then typed a "←, →" arrow on the left and right, and drew a grid on the "road": "The left is the game progress in the Asian and American area, and the right is the game progress in the Europa area, and now the player on the right has only walked one square, while the player on the left has walked five squares, and the time used is equal"

Wutong looked at it seriously, although he didn't understand what the uncle wanted to express. "Now, when the player on the right walks to the second square, he finds a station, finds the bus to the destination and sits on it, so their speed will get faster and faster, and when the player on the left reaches the sixth square, he finds that there is no road ahead, so he can only walk another five squares back to the center of the intersection, and walk two more squares to the right to reach the station and take the bus, and at this time, the player on the right may have walked out of ten or twenty squares."

Wutong was taken aback: "You mean, we went the wrong way?" ”

The uncle shook his head: "I don't know if the left is the road to the destination, or the right, I only know that the players in the Asian and American regions seem to have made a mistake of 'sharpening knives and not cutting wood'."

Take the difficulty of the caster route as an example, players with high intelligence caster talent in our Asian American region, after finding it too difficult to become a mage, either decisively changed the career path, or retreated to the next best choice to become a warlock or wizard with lower difficulty, which caused the number of players in our Asian American mage class to be surprisingly small.

It's not that the warlock and wizard professions are bad, it's just that each profession has a meaning of existence, and it may not be obvious now, but once a cross-regional war breaks out in Europe and Asia in the future, then this hidden problem may be exposed, and we have one less class than the other side, and I am afraid it will still be a very important main combat class

And the players who look at the Europa region, although they have encountered the high difficulty of the caster's class, they are not complaining, but trying to find a way to solve these difficulties.

Although it takes about 800 gold coins to become a trainee mage, in fact, there is no need to use so much money at all, at least not at all in the early stage, because the professional characteristics of mages doom them to have no chance of fighting and adventure at all in the early stage, but need to accumulate strength through a lot of study and honing, and take the route of mission flow.

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The uncle calculated an account for Wutong on parchment: "According to the experience stickers that have been published in the official community of "Endless", among the 800 gold coins required to become a trainee mage, nearly 700 gold coins are listed as professional items, in fact, players don't need to spend money at all, and they will be obtained slowly during the mission. And the tuition fee for learning 10 spells can also be credited to the NPC mentor, so there is no need to raise it at the beginning."

Wutong thought about his personal experience and nodded, it is true, although he is "in debt" with the old mage Belial, it seems that he has not repaid it once, if he really wants to pay it back, it is impossible for ordinary players who have not left the trial island to repay it at all

"If you go through the quest stream, the mages don't have much demand for equipment in the early stage, so the cost of buying mage equipment can be removed, and the last thing that remains is probably the cost of the inaugural trainee profession of 150 silver coins, and this fee can also be repaid slowly by the NPC mentor in the form of a task'work-study', so to sum up, the mage has no financial pressure at all in the early stage, but it just spends some more time and energy on learning than others."

The uncle frowned, and tapped his fingers lightly with an ink pen: "And everyone doesn't seem to have noticed that mages have innate advantages in learning and skills because of their high intelligence, so in the Europa region, the players of the caster's career route, in the early stage, almost all of them are craftsmen from all walks of life, and while they are honing their production, processing, and manufacturing skills, they are also providing the entire player group with cheap various items, armor, weapons, jewelry, alchemy, potions, etc., which makes the entire Europa region market, A virtuous cycle is entered, where the player group relies on the caster class to obtain supplies that are far cheaper than the expensive items sold in the NPC shop, while the caster relies on the materials and money provided by the player group to accumulate skill experience and loot the items they need, so to speak. ”

Wutong gasped, if this is the case, the players in the Europa region, not only have complete occupations, but also craftsmen in various fields are endless, once a war breaks out between the two regions of Europe and Asia, then the current virtual economy, or the type of occupation, are showing a deformed development trend of the Asian and American regions, I am afraid that it will be a complete failure

"Isn't that out of play?" Wutong was dumbfounded, and fools know that according to the game genre of "Endless", it will definitely involve the theme of war at that time, is it waiting to be wiped out by players in the Europa region? "The reason why I said that there is no way to judge whether we are on the wrong path is because almost all the players in the Asian and American regions are taking the combat route, and there are not too many players who are willing to become life and auxiliary professions." ”

The uncle felt that what he said might be a little too unfounded, and it was a little shocking, so he slowed down his tone and said: "This has caused the players in the Asian and American regions to almost all of them to be 'all soldiers', maybe this is also a game route, with the 'balance mechanism' of the core consciousness of "Endless", it should not allow the irreversible situation I envisioned." ”

After a slight pause, the uncle suddenly laughed: "Moreover, I suddenly figured it out before, in fact, the reason why the official chose to use the Europa cultural background is also a balancing mechanism, because players in the Asian and American regions have a great advantage by nature: population"

Sycamore is confused, what does this have to do with the population?

"In the first wave of players in the Asia-America region, the population occupied nearly 10,000 trial islands, and the trial islands in the Europa region were only more than 2,000, and the gap between them was nearly four or five times, which is the gap between Europe and Asia since ancient times, and there is no way to eliminate it.

And according to my speculation, with the arrival of the second and third waves of players, according to the ratio of 2:3:5, this gap will be further widened, and the first batch of players who 'went the wrong way' may eliminate the disadvantages caused by 'going the wrong way' because of this factor, but instead copy the 'shortcut'"

Uncle heyed smiled: "The current special economic storm environment in Asia and the United States will inevitably give rise to a large number of unemployed people who have entered the virtual economy market to survive, although it is not obvious now, but I believe that soon some people will realize that "Endless" is almost for the virtual economy market, the strong value of the tailor-made game, so as to have confidence in the virtual economy market, and invest in it without hesitation. ”

As if thinking about it slightly, the uncle confidently tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop: "In this way, what a huge group of handicraftsmen will be born from the huge surplus population that pours into "Endless"? If you don't know the players in the Asian and American regions, if you continue to walk on the current road, you may be able to cultivate a large number of 'off-the-job' 'professional warriors', instead of being like the players in the Europa region, everyone who produces and sells their own products specializes in one or several items. ”

Wutong sweated again, what do you say the uncle's brain thinks? How can you figure out so much from playing a game? What does this have to do with them?

Seeing Wutong's blank expression, the uncle couldn't help but sigh, his own boss obviously occupied such a big advantage in the game, but he himself didn't notice it at all, which made the uncle who had been working hard eager to squirt him to death with a mouthful of blood

I know that it's too profound, this guy can't understand, so the uncle can only give up, and say what is in front of him directly: "Okay, I gave up What I want to say is that the players on the various trial islands within the Asian and American region, through their own exploration and research of the experience posts in the Europa region, have begun to gradually turn their routes in the right direction, and a large number of players have taken up the apprenticeship profession, and they are all specialized routes, which makes the players' strength rise by leaps and bounds, and they have come into contact with the outlying island missions on a large scale, The secret of our Sea-Watching Cliff Nether Circle has been exposed, and the strategy posts have been posted in the official community. ”

Wutong understood what the uncle meant, and opened his mouth wide, doesn't that mean that the advantage they have now will be gone? The cooperation agreement signed with the virtual trading platform alone will lose more than half

"That's not it, you can't imagine how many trial islands our island hopper troops have occupied, without this identity, except for the teleportation function of the Nether Circle, you can't carry people and things, so although it has been affected to a certain extent, the impact is not great."

The uncle comforted: "The major virtual trading platforms don't have so much manpower and material resources, and ants move slowly to transport their goods, and this business can only be handed over to us who have seized the 'identity of the recognized'." ”

Wutong breathed a sigh of relief, but the uncle added as if he was deliberately stimulating him: "The 'impact' I am talking about, one is from the player group, the players who take the specialized route, the strength has skyrocketed, our power is no longer enough to control them between the palms, and many player forces have found a large number of ruins similar to this underground temple." dungeon', and are trying to explore, if we don't speed up the progress, I'm afraid we won't be able to stand on the edge in this regard, the benefits of clearing these underground ruins, don't you need me to remind you, right? Second, with the accumulation of the previous period of time, the major player guilds, families, groups and chaebols in the field of virtual economy have begun to exert their strength, and we have a large number of competitors at once. ”

The uncle looked at Wutong very seriously: "You don't have to worry about the economy, what about me, the reason why I notify you is to inquire, are we withdrawing from the competition and concentrating on the economic aspect?" It's better to invest more and increase the fighting power of our guild, if it's the latter, it's not enough to rely on the lions and their hundred or so players."

Uncle's question stumped Wutong all of a sudden, fighting for hegemony? Also set up a big guild to fight other guilds to fight to the death and grab territory? How tired is that? Isn't it good for everyone to play games with a friendly person?

Just when Wutong was embarrassed, the uncle sighed: "Okay, it seems that your personality is really not suitable for this, boss, let's talk about it later, I just notified you in advance." In addition, you have to be careful, your identity seems to have been exposed, and many guilds that have had a holiday with us have begun to suspect that you are not an NPC, but a player."

Wutong fell, this doesn't seem to matter, right? He didn't plan to hide it for long, pretending to be an NPC made him feel a little detached from the masses, and if he was exposed, he would be exposed.

"Don't forget, if you have an NPC identity, it is an advantage for our guild reputation, and the guild that can pull NPCs to join, the prestige and credibility are higher than those of ordinary guilds, and the identity of NPCs is also a deterrent to players, so that they dare not deal with us easily, for fear of causing retaliation from NPC forces, and players at this stage cannot compete with NPCs."

Uncle said: "Moreover, once your NPC identity is exposed, they will hunt you down without any scruples, killing the president of a rival guild is the most commonly used means of attack in the game world, if you don't plan to let the reputation of the "Secret Shadow" guild suffer, then you have to ensure that your strength can withstand the endless pursuit." ”

"Chase? Uh, I'm a little confident in this" Wutong looked at his equipment, if this was all killed, it would be too much, right?

Because of the advantages of a while ago, I felt that I might be a master, and I felt a little proud of the world, but I didn't know that real masters are often very low-key