Rebirth of the Evil Life

If players could directly exchange gold coins and convert virtual currency into real money, think about how crazy the players would be! No, not just crazy, almost hysterical!

Although there are professional "gold" players now, most of the so-called professional "gold" players still need to sell through a third party or on an "online trading platform". In this way, not only is the transaction more troublesome, but it is also very complicated. no warranty. (Read novel) After all, you don’t know when your “gold” will be sold, and you don’t know whether you will be in this business for a long time.

But now that "War of the Worlds" provides direct currency exchange, it will be a huge boon to all gamers. This means that all players can make money directly by exchanging virtual currencies in the game. This means that all professional "gold collectors" no longer have to worry about the lack of guaranteed income. As long as you can produce "gold coins", you will be able to sell them for money; this means that from now on, there will truly be a kind of online game in the world. Professional players who "gold" sell money to make a living.

Of course, the emergence of this kind of professional "gold grinder" is not entirely a bad thing for the game. After all, they themselves are consumers of games, and because of their appearance, games will become more prosperous. After all, sometimes pure gold coins cannot solve the problem. After all, in "World War", the system stipulates that gold coins are only a currency in circulation. They cannot be directly purchased from players for any high-tech technology that can affect the balance of the game. They can only be used to purchase Circulable strategic substances and the like.

This will somewhat eclipse the sales model of real currency exchange for gold coins launched by Lin Feng, but the emergence of these professional "gold diggers" will change everything. They can create gods to make money in the game through various means, and then directly exchange them to earn living expenses or wages. And their appearance will make the game more dynamic. In short, the emergence of this kind of professional "gold farming" will promote the development of "World War". Of course, it will also bring some disadvantages.

However, in online games, there will be such professional "gold earners", but now Lin Feng has legalized them.

But what Wu Zhaopu is worried about is not whether the emergence of these professional "gold grinders" will have an impact on the game, but whether such a confrontation will cause dissatisfaction in some countries.

Lin Feng shook his head.

"Mr. Wu, I will not use RMB as the unit. I will be in line with international standards and only accept the exchange of euros or US dollars. In other words, whether it is exchanging real currency for virtual currency or virtual currency for real currency, the euro will be used. Or US dollars as the settlement unit. Also, our company will charge a 5% transaction commission for any exchange transaction." Lin Feng explained.

Wu Zhaopu's eyes lit up. If that's the case, it's really good. In this way, we can avoid being harmed by the country to the greatest extent. It also charges a 5% transaction commission, which is a considerable amount of income.

5%,

If tens of millions of dollars can be exchanged in a day, regardless of whether players use real money to buy virtual currency or virtual currency to buy real money, a 5% commission is $500,000, which is almost enough to pay for the maintenance of all servers in "War of the Worlds" Expenses.

But is this 5% too high? After all, for such a large-scale exchange, is 5% a bit too high?

"5% is indeed a bit high, especially during the war. I guess hundreds of millions of dollars in real currency were exchanged every day." Lin Feng said with emotion.

Although the number of hundreds of millions of dollars exchanged every day is scary, in fact it is not too much if it is evenly distributed to every continent, every country, and then every guild in the game. The five continents of the world are Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe and America. Most of Africa and the Americas are almost blank in terms of online games, but even counting the United States, Canada and other countries in Asia, Europe and America, it is enough to share the hundreds of millions of dollars.

To put it simply, a war is a small-scale war involving tens of thousands of people. Ten thousand submachine guns are only one per person. Five rounds of bullets in a war are not too many. One round of bullets only has 30 rounds, and three rounds of bullets only has 150 rounds. According to the setting of "World War", a bullet costs 0.1 yuan in virtual currency, so a small war costs 15 yuan per person. Ten thousand people is 150,000 gold coins.

This is just the most basic bullet consumption. And these 10,000 people also need to buy food and drinking water. A conservative estimate is that one person will spend 1 game currency, which is 10,000 game coins. This is 160,000 game coins. Then we can't always fight on foot. If we drive motorcycles, armored vehicles, tanks, or even airplanes, we still have to buy fuel. Even if it is really just all infantry fighting, it will cost money to repair firearms, repair body armor, etc. Based on this calculation, the most conservative estimate is that one person will spend at least about 30 gold coins per war. Ten thousand people fighting on foot will cost 300,000 gold coins. If other war tools are involved, the cost will be even more.

According to the exchange ratio formulated by Lin Fengchu, 1 U.S. dollar is exchanged for 30 gold coins, which is 10,000 U.S. dollars.

And this is just a battle involving tens of thousands of people. According to Lin Feng’s estimation, the number of conservative game players of “War of the Worlds” will exceed 500 million. The average online audience will exceed 70 million. After all, a first-person shooting game with absolute freedom, where you can create gods to conquer cities and conquer lands, and freely exchange gold coins for them, will be far more attractive than any other online game. Especially once the game involves national honor and personal honor and disgrace, this number will double. Think about it, when you hear that in the virtual world, your virtual country’s territory is occupied by other countries, anyone with a bit of blood and time will join this game.

For no other reason than to prevent other countries from invading our territory, we must fight to the death to the bitter end! Therefore, Lin Feng's number of online players is estimated to be small. And even with this most conservative estimate, there are at least thousands of battles involving tens of thousands of people taking place every day. What's more, in the virtual world, it is much easier to start a war than in the real world. As the game progresses, wars will only become more frequent and larger in scale.

Even if there are an average of 1,000 wars per day, each war is conservatively estimated to consume US$10,000, which is still US$10 million. And when a war breaks out between countries in the future, and the sea, land and air are fully mobilized, it is normal for a war to involve millions of people, but it is simply a joke to spend hundreds of millions of game gold coins in a war.

War, war is all about consumption. And when this consumption can be purchased directly with real money to create gods, people who are carried away by the enthusiasm of war will go crazy.

After Wu Zhaopu made this calculation, his face suddenly turned dark. Based on this calculation, doesn't it mean that fighting a virtual war in "World War" in the future will be far more expensive than a real war?

"Yes, if "World War" reaches the mid-to-late stage, it will indeed be a large-scale war between countries, which will exceed a war in reality. After all, real wars do not easily exceed millions or even thousands of people. A war involving tens of thousands of people. Even if the cost of a virtual war is 100 to 1, the cost is far greater than that of a real war." Lin Feng affirmed.

"Then doesn't that mean that in the future, our company will earn hundreds of millions of dollars every time a large-scale national war breaks out in "World War". And even if such a large-scale war is fought once a month, it will With so many countries, wouldn’t we make billions of dollars every month?” Wu Zhaopu exclaimed.

Thinking of this possibility, Wu Zhaopu felt his head shining with golden light, which was a lot of dollars. If this development really follows, the "Second World" will simply become a money printing machine in the future.

Lin Feng nodded. If development goes smoothly, the company's future earnings will indeed exceed everyone's imagination.

"But if you calculate it this way, in the future most countries' money will go into our company's pockets, which will probably cause dissatisfaction and even covetousness from many countries." Wu Zhaopu thought about the future when players around the world would fight crazily for honor in the virtual world. , when their money is put into Lin Feng's pocket, it will bring great economic risks.

Honor can drive people crazy. Once they invest all their living expenses into "War of the Worlds", they will collapse when they wake up and return to the real world. This will bring instability and even economic crisis to these countries. At that time, the "Second World", which has made a lot of money, will probably become the target of attack by many countries.

"Yes, this is indeed a crisis. Therefore, before that, our company must develop as much as possible and develop into a company that can transcend the country, so that other countries dare not touch us. But before that, our conversation today It must be kept secret." Lin Feng broke into a cold sweat when he thought about this possibility. Today's conversation must be kept secret, otherwise your company will become "Qing Dynasty Heshen" and you will end up making a lot of money for others.

"Boss, don't worry, no third party will know about today's topic." Wu Zhaopu nodded heavily. He has been sold to the "Second World" in his life. It can be said that anyone who wants to be detrimental to the "Second World" is detrimental to him, and that is his enemy.

Lin Feng patted Wu Zhaopu on the shoulder. Let him not worry so much. After all, these things are still very far away and may not necessarily happen.

"That's right, but before that, we have to solve a problem, which is how to make it easy for players to exchange gold coins." Lin Feng thought of the biggest drawback of virtual currency exchange.

"Ha, this is simple. Boss, don't you have a 'Second Bank'? Let your 'Second Bank' launch a special game card. Players can freely redeem the money in this card to create gods." You can also exchange game currency directly into real money. This is much simpler. At the same time, it can help the boss develop the 'Second Bank', which can be said to serve multiple purposes!" Wu Zhaopu clapped his hands.

Lin Feng's eyes lit up. yes! Directly let your own "Second Bank" sell this kind of game card, which will not only help players solve the exchange problem, but also make the "Second Bank" become a global bank.

"Win! Mr. Wu, you have a good idea. It's settled! I'll ask the Second Bank to launch this kind of card later." Lin Feng was very happy.

Then he called Pete, the president of "Second Bank". After hearing about Lin Feng's idea, Peter greatly agreed. Although "Second Bank" is currently registered in the UK, its main business actually only covers Southeast Asia, and Peter wants to build "Second Bank" into an existence like "Flower Bank". For now, the "Second Bank" does not have a good expansion plan, but Lin Feng's "game card" plan will undoubtedly promote the expansion of the "Second Bank".

Think about it, "War of the Worlds" is a blockbuster game launched in 2005 with more than 1,000 investment from "Second World". It is sure to be popular. "The Second Bank" launches a "game card" that will definitely be popular among "War of the Worlds" Accepted by players. If these users become die-hard users of "Second Bank" by then, it will be difficult for "Second Bank" not to expand.

"Boss, by the way, regarding this virtual currency exchange issue, I think our bank may need to reserve a large amount of US dollars or euros. At present, our bank's cash reserves are not sufficient." Pete frowned and said.

The current market value of "Second Bank" is more than 140 billion Hong Kong dollars. However, due to several previous financings, such as the acquisition of "NVIDIA", etc., most of the company's liquidity has been consumed. Currently, the company does not have enough liquidity to use as reserve funds. , in order to meet the needs of players to exchange virtual currency for US dollars.

"Don't worry, Peter, I will let the 'Second World' take out the Second Bank for this. There is no need for any guarantee from the 'Second Bank'." Lin Fengxiao said.

Pete nodded. However, "Second World" itself has debts of US$2.5 billion, and it has US$3 billion in cash as guarantee.

"Haha, the 'Second World' doesn't have it, but I do! I can just borrow US$3 billion from the 'Second World' temporarily!" Lin Feng laughed!

Pete's eyes lit up. You know, Lam Feng himself had little cash due to the acquisition of "Baidu-Yahoo" stocks. Now that Lin Feng can be so generous and spend 3 billion US dollars, it seems that the rumors that Lin Feng received 9.5 billion US dollars in compensation from the US government should be true.

Of course, even if Peter guessed this, he wouldn't say it. After all, it would do no one any good to say this kind of thing. Not only is his boss Lin Feng unhappy, the US government will also be unhappy. Some things are better left in your heart.

"Boss, I will launch this 'game card' as soon as possible, don't worry!" Pete assured, patting his chest.

"Well, by the way, this kind of 'game card' also has level restrictions. As long as the player's cumulative consumption on this card exceeds a certain amount, whether in real life or in the virtual game world, the player will be able to You can enjoy discounts on transaction fees. When you reach the highest level, Platinum P level, the commission on all transactions with this card will be reduced to 1%." Lin Feng said.

5% commission is very high. Especially at the end of the war, when billions of game coins are invested, this 5% is very painful, and will restrict the occurrence of many wars. Think about it, with a ratio of 1:30, after a million-person war was fought, the "Second World" would have to extract 100 million game coins for transaction commissions alone, which is a commission of about 3 million US dollars. That's too annoying. It hurts.

Therefore, only by reducing commissions can we ensure the birth of these large-scale transactions. Moreover, setting the level of this kind of bank card also shows the player's identity and can satisfy the player's vanity to a certain extent. In this world, everyone has a little bit of vanity.

Peter hung up the phone and went to deal with the "game card" matter. Peter is also extremely curious about the charging model that "War of the Worlds" will adopt. Although the risks are relatively high in the early stage, once you enter the middle and late stages of the game, you may make money faster than a money printing machine. And the "second bank" as the intermediary guarantor will naturally make a lot of money from this.

"Okay, Mr. Wu, everything is settled. Now we just wait for the open beta of "World War"." Lin Feng said with a smile.

Wu Zhaopu nodded heavily. Wu Zhaopu wanted to laugh when he thought about the financial resources that would come rolling in once "War of the Worlds" is released to the public. They say making money by playing online games, but who knew that playing online games would be so profitable!

"By the way, boss, what about game promotion?" Wu Zhaopu asked.

"Don't be anxious about this for now. After all, the open beta of "War of the Worlds" is still half a year away, so don't rush. We will wait until December to fully promote it. At that time, it will be Christmas in the West, and "War of the Worlds" will "Let's promote it as a Christmas gift for men around the world!" Lin Feng said with a smile.

"Well, let's wait for now." Wu Zhaopu nodded, "Director Lin, it's almost time to get off work. Are you going home or going somewhere today? If you don't go home, why don't we go have a drink?" Wu Zhaopu said Pu was so excited that he really wanted to find someone to have a drink with. And Lin Feng is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate!

Lin Feng looked at his watch. It was already 5 o'clock and it was time to get off work.

"By the way, Mr. Wu, first accompany me to the Fifth Game Development Department to find Minwu Li. He is responsible for the development of "World War". Let's also hear his views on "World War"." Lin Fengxiao Then said.

Although usually the game departments do not intervene in the operating model of the game, and it has always been decided by the company's management. But this time "War of the Worlds" is related to the company's profits in the next few years, and it is very likely to become the company's biggest profit source. Lin Feng also wants to hear Minwu-Li's views on this. Of course, I also want to know what stage "War of the Worlds" is currently at.

"Exchange gold coins directly? This is feasible! Lin, this is a good idea!" After Minwu Li heard Lin Feng's plan, he greatly appreciated it and expressed his absolute approval.

"By the way, what stage is World War in now?" Lin Feng asked with concern.

"this"

At this moment, there was an exclamation from outside, and then someone laughed. Lin Feng curiously walked over to take a look, and was stunned. He didn't expect that the "Fifth Game Development Department" was actually playing this game, but the game they played seemed different from the one Lin Feng played when he was a child.