Chapter 76: The Reason Why Sword Art Online Was Not Published

"Intelligent NPCs with independent personalities? Wouldn't that be able to react like a normal person in the game? ”

Hearing that there was nothing wrong with the game itself, Ji Kong breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he also became interested in the artificial intelligence in the mouth of the wild people of Harada. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In Ji Kong's previous life, there was actually artificial intelligence, the most well-known is the famous AlphaGo (Alpha Dog), when the news of defeating South Korea's nine-dan player Lee Sedol in Go was all the rage on the Internet.

However, it is only a mechanical thinking, and it cannot be said to have its own independent character.

As for whether the country has the ability to create artificial intelligence with an independent personality, Ji Kong doesn't know, after all, the country's top technology is classified level, and it is decades ahead of civilian technology, although there is no one on the market now, but if the country suddenly announces that it will come out one day, Ji Kong will not be surprised.

However, according to Harada, it seems that the world has created artificial intelligence with an independent personality, and has begun to try to popularize it in the direction of civilian use.

This made Ji Kong very interested, after all, compared to the cold NPC, it was still more interesting to have more vivid characters.

"That's true in theory, but who knows if there will be any problems here, after all, it has never been tested on such a large platform before, and the program can only be applied to some important NPCs."

Harada's mood seems to be a little pessimistic, which is also a reasonable thing, after all, today's legendary era is a very large game platform, just Japan, the number of long-term online people is as high as hundreds of thousands - don't think this number is small, in fact, with Japan's national conditions, this number is already a record.

On such a large platform, any small mistake will be infinitely magnified, so this should also be the reason why the National Academy of Sciences used "Age of Legends" to test.

After all, the bigger the platform, the more it can reflect the shortcomings.

But once something really goes wrong, the first to bear the brunt is their game operator.

"Well, Mr. Harada, don't be so pessimistic, after all, artificial intelligence is also a big gimmick, right? I believe that it can attract a lot of players, at least I am very interested in this. Ji Kong said.

"But the problem is that the gimmick of Age of Legends is big enough now! The world's first VR online game, no matter what, has already earned enough eyeballs - even if you are an empty teacher, if there is no artificial intelligence, you are still playing this game, right? ”

"Uh......"

Ji Kong choked for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, this is indeed the truth.

Those who can play online games have been attracted by the name of "the world's first VR online game", and those who can't play online games will not be able to play even if there are many tricks in your game.

In other words, the potential players of the online game "Age of Legends" have actually been hollowed out a long time ago!

So AI is just the icing on the cake, it can bring more positive reviews to the game, but it can't absorb more players.

After a moment of condensation, probably Hara Tianyeren also felt that he had said a little too much, and after coughing a few times in embarrassment, he changed the topic and said, "Speaking of which, hasn't Mr. Sora's novel been published yet?" ”

"Not yet."

Speaking of this, Ji Kong is a little depressed, he has now serialized 60,000 words on the post bar, and there are still 40,000 left, which is enough for one volume, but the strange thing is that there is still no library or editor who has come to him to sign a contract for publication.

If it is said that the response is flat, it will be forgotten, but it is clear that "Sword Art Online" has the potential to be a big fire now, are those editors blind?

"If there was no editor to sign a contract, I think I should know the answer." Harada Savage hesitated for a moment and said, "This is probably because of Sora's identity. ”

"My identity?" The words of the wild man in the original field made Ji Kong stunned.

"There are some things I don't want to hide from you, in fact, after the last time I spoke to you on the phone, I tried to investigate your identity......"

After hesitating for a moment, Harada decided to tell the truth.

It turned out that since he talked to Ji Kong on the phone that day, he had become very curious about Ji Kong's life experience, after all, it would definitely not be ordinary people who could ask so many big Vs to help promote it.

And if Ji Kong really has a good background, he can also try to cooperate more deeply with the other party.

But this investigation is in trouble.

First, several friends he entrusted were taken away by the police for investigation, and then in the afternoon of the same day, several members of the National Security Bureau came to the door and invited him to the bureau for tea in the name of "intending to murder the national leader."

After that, he was detained in the General State Security Bureau for three days, until his ancestors were investigated for 18 generations, and even what color diapers he used when he was a child, and he was not released.

So, this is also the reason why he was very polite to Ji Kong today.

After a little embarrassed to tell the ins and outs of the matter, Harada said: "Because our circle is very small, so everyone got in because of something, basically can't hide it, I think those people in the library should have guessed something, so they can't make up their minds for a long time." ”

After listening to his explanation, Ji Kong couldn't help but laugh a little and said, "But what does this have to do with them not signing a contract with me?" ”

"It must be because they don't know what kind of attitude Mr. Sora has, and they don't know what price to offer."

Generally speaking, the price of a light novel in Japan is about 550 yen, and the author takes 50 yen from it, and the total income is 4 million yen, or about 260,000 yuan, according to the printing of 80,000 yuan for a novel.

260,000 yuan is an income that is unattainable for many white-collar workers in a year, but for those rich second generations, 260,000 yuan is also called money?

The original field savage estimated that just asking so many big Vs to help publicize it was far more than that!

So in the eyes of some editors, Ji Kong's writing of this "Sword Art Online" may be the nature of the rich second generation's ticket.

This kind of person often doesn't care about money, but if you give less, you look down on people.

Therefore, now the heads of the major bookstores are also in a tangle.

On the one hand, they saw that Sword Art Online had the potential to be a big hit, so they wanted to sign the book.

But on the other hand, they don't know what price to give, so they simply observe secretly to see what kind of price their peers are ready to offer.

As a result, the signing and publication of "Sword Art Online" has been delayed all the time......