Finally, after a few rounds of hype, both Minecraft and Thousand Hells announced their release dates.
Both games were set to be released on the first of August. Thousand Hells was priced at 1288 RMB, while Minecraft was priced at 128 RMB, a tenth of Thousand Hells' price.
Thousand Hells' price might seem normal for VR games in China, but it was actually quite low.
Just like Diablo, it was a single-player game with very few in-game services. Most of the revenue came from the sales of the game itself. Players didn't have to pay for it after buying it, so it was relatively cheap compared to other Chinese VR games.
Of course, this wasn't to say that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a conscience. It was just that Thousand Hells didn't use that much resources, and many of the scenes were reused, greatly lowering the cost of development.
Emperor Dynasty Entertainment set the price slightly lower in hopes of increasing sales.
As for Minecraft.
Many people were shocked at how cheap Minecraft was. For a VR game, 128 RMB was basically free.
(Normally, a VR game divided by ten is the price of a PC game, meaning that Minecraft was equivalent to a PC game that cost twelve RMB on VR.)
But Chen Mo was still overselling it.
This was because Minecraft didn't require much investment. The investment for the PC version was almost negligible. Even if it was changed to VR, with so many optimizations and adjustments, the total investment was only around ten million RMB.
For Chen Mo, ten million RMB wasn't much. The main cost of making Minecraft was time.
Therefore, Chen Mo didn't set the price so high. What he wanted was sales. Only with more sales and more players would Minecraft be able to show its true potential.
Chen Mo's goal was to have Minecraft installed in every VR gaming pod in China.
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The first of August, Minecraft and Thousand Hells were officially released!
Once the two games were released for purchase, the players who had been paying attention to the two games began to download them and eagerly installed them into the gaming pods to experience them.
Fish-Catching Streaming Platform, Lin Xue's stream.
The screen was still black, but the viewers were all discussing it.
"Is Xue changing the signal from the gaming pod? Is she streaming a VR game today? "
"Yeah, I heard that Thousand Hells is on sale today. She's probably going to play the official server. After all, Xue is a hardcore fan of Diablo."
"Uhh, shouldn't hardcore Diablo fans play Chen Mo's new game?"
"Play what? That's a building game. Who wants to watch it?"
"Hmm? There's a signal, the game pod's showing up. "
On the screen of the livestream room, the game capsule's information screen appeared.
The VR games in this world could also be streamed, but it had to be converted into a live stream signal for the players to watch.
For example, a first-person RPG like Thousand Hells would have a first-person perspective with a 124-degree field of vision. However, after being converted to a live broadcast signal, the perspective would change to a third-person perspective (meaning that the camera would move to the back of the character's head), and the field of vision would also change to a 90-degree field of vision on the computer screen.
After all, if the video signal from the first-person perspective was directly converted into a live broadcast, it would be too dazzling, and most of the audience would be dizzy.
The current interface was equivalent to the desktop of the VR pod. There were a lot of games, and Thousand Hells was in a rather conspicuous position.
Lin Xue had already started Minecraft before the chat even had the chance to be proud of herself.
The chat was dumbfounded.
"Huh? Minecraft? It's really Minecraft? "
"Did Ah Xue change her personality? Why is she playing a building game? "
"Damn, I don't want to watch it anymore!"
"Previous poster, leave if you don't want to watch it. We'll watch whatever Ah Xue plays!"
Lin Xue said, "I'm going to stream Minecraft today. Chen Mo made this game as well. Let's skip the explanation and get straight into the game. "
Lin Xue's unclear explanation caused a lot of chatter in the chat.
"What does Ah Xue mean? What do you mean skip the explanation?"
"It feels like Ah Xue has a lot of trust in Chen Mo's game …"
"Why, why do I smell something different!"
The screen switched to Minecraft amidst the barrage of question marks.
Lin Xue was currently in the middle of a field, the sun was slowly rising in the distance.
The white clouds in the sky formed the game's logo: Minecraft. It also had an English name, Minecraft.
Not far to the left of Lin Xue was a small house made of blocks with the words Minecraft written on it.
Further to the left was a small path that led into a dense forest. Many buildings could be seen in the distance with a sign that said Other People's World.
To the right of Lin Xue was a giant observatory with a giant globe on it. It said Everyone's World.
There was a smaller portal to the right of the observatory with the words "Chen Mo's World" written on it.
Apart from that, there was a warehouse next to the Minecraft house with the words Resource Center.
Of course, all the buildings were pieced together with a thick mosaic style.
It seemed like this was the game's login screen.
Lin Xue tried to walk around in the game, but when she looked down, she realized that she had become a figurine in the game.
The audience could see more clearly from the third-person perspective. At this moment, Lin Xue looked like the little girl from the Frozen series of Lego building blocks. She was a chibi version with a standard three-headed body, blonde hair, and wore a cute white dress and stockings. She looked very cute when she walked.
Minecraft would automatically read the player's account data when they first log in and use that to determine the character's initial gender.
A cute dog came up to Lin Xue with a sign in its mouth.
"Your character has been randomly chosen based on your character's gender, would you like to customize it?"
Lin Xue chose yes without hesitation.
It would have been fine if the game didn't offer customization, but since it did, why wouldn't she?
Lin Xue's perspective changed from a first-person perspective to a third-person perspective. It was as if her soul had left her body and was looking down at her character.
At the same time, UIs appeared on both sides of the character for Lin Xue to choose what she wanted to wear.
"It's quite rich …"
As Lin Xue flipped through the game, she realized that although the game looked simple, it had a complete set of functions. Take the customization system for example. You could choose your character's face, hat, shirt, pants, shoes, and so on. You could even adjust your character's height to a certain extent.
After carefully choosing for half an hour, Lin Xue finally picked an outfit that she was satisfied with.
"Hmm … which mode should I play first?"
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