Fangzheng made such a judgment long ago. Indeed, if this was a normal MMORPG, as Kibaou said, the early beta players would more or less have some advantages. Their familiarity with the system, skills, and mission flow would ensure that these early beta players would indeed be more familiar with the game than those who had just entered the game.
However, there were ways to deal with this. As Fangzheng said, the main purpose of the game's internal testing was to test the smoothness of the game itself and whether the various data met the requirements.
For example, if a quest required the player to kill ten rabbit hairs to complete the quest and obtain a bandage, then perhaps in the closed beta, the player only needed to kill ten rabbits, or even kill one rabbit and obtain ten hairs. After all, the whole process was only to test whether the player could kill rabbit hairs, whether the rabbit hairs would drop smoothly, and whether the player could successfully complete the quest and obtain the bandage and experience.
However, when it came to the open beta or the official launch, the drop rate would definitely have to be adjusted. Perhaps during the closed beta, one rabbit would drop one hair, but during the open beta or the official launch, it was possible that one would need to kill two to three rabbits before one hair would drop.
Similarly, the drop rate of the various items and equipment that would drop during the closed beta would naturally be adjusted.
This way, the early beta players would be held back, making it harder for them to stand out.
Not only that, in Fangzheng's view, even if the early beta players had all sorts of advantages, they only needed one weakness to erase all of their advantages.
Fault tolerance.
Perhaps in other online games, it wouldn't be a problem for you to die three or four times, but in this world, you only had one life. In other words, when you played this game, the fault tolerance was zero. Any mistake in judgment could cause you to die without a burial place.
Moreover, after you die, there won't be an angel sister to resurrect you.
Therefore, if the closed beta and closed beta players relied on their foresight to cause trouble, Fangzheng was sure that they wouldn't live to see the sun rise tomorrow morning.
"Woo …"
At this moment, Kibaou was also speechless by Fangzheng's words. His face was red, and his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. After a long time, he finally squeezed out a sentence.
"Don't talk nonsense. How did you know it would be like this?"
"Because I'm a game designer."
Fangzheng glanced at Kibao contemptuously.
"At least I know more about this than you do."
"Woo …"
At this moment, Kibao was completely speechless.
Of course, Fangzheng wouldn't let go of such a good opportunity. The reason why he wasted time talking to this idiot wasn't just to beat him up. This was a game, an MMORPG. The most important thing about an MMORPG was interaction. In other words, communication and trust between people were very important. Fangzheng wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to leave a good impression on everyone. This way, it would be easier for him to do things in the future.
Hence, Fangzheng turned to the players beside him and said.
"Since everyone is here, let me give you a friendly reminder. Many of you may be experienced gamers and are very confident in your skills and awareness, but let me warn you first. This is likely to be the source of your failure. To put it bluntly, those who have never played an MMORPG or even played a game before may live longer than you. "
"What makes you say that?"
"Yeah, yeah!"
Upon hearing Fangzheng's words, some of the people in the crowd were unhappy. Indeed, many of them were gamers who loved online games. Otherwise, they wouldn't have rushed to buy the game to play when it was just released. They were also very confident in their experience. Even if they hadn't played the game before, in their opinion, with their experience in the game, even if they couldn't dominate an area, they should at least have no problem protecting themselves.
But now, this man was saying that they were worse than noobs who had never played games before?
How could they tolerate this?
Hearing everyone's rebuttal, Kibaou sneered. In his opinion, Fangzheng was arrogant. He thought that he had said a few reasonable words, and now he was rebuking them. However, Fangzheng was very calm. He was even somewhat happy. From his point of view, the fact that these players were willing to retort him meant that they had taken his words to heart. Otherwise, there was no need for them to waste time here.
So, Fangzheng raised his hand and gestured for everyone to listen to him. Then, he said.
"Since many of you are experienced gamers, you should remember when you first played the game. You carefully controlled your character, afraid that it would get hurt. You always tried to protect your character as much as possible, right?"
"…"
Hearing this, many players nodded. After all, most of the noobs were like this.
"But what about you now?"
Fangzheng smiled again.
"For you, perhaps the death of your character has long become a habit. Perhaps the death of your character will make you feel distressed, but you won't particularly care. This is your weakness. I need to remind you that the fault tolerance of this game is zero. There is almost no place where you can resurrect if you make a mistake. If you die this time, you'll really die. Perhaps you'll remember it now, but when you're killing monsters and completing quests, you'll unconsciously forget about it. Perhaps when you realize that your HP is in danger, you'll suddenly remember this setting. But at that time … "
As he spoke, Fangzheng spread his hands.
"… It's too late for you."
"…"
This time, the crowd fell into a longer silence than before. Most of these players were not fools. Previously, they just did not think of this because they were too shocked or confused. But now, after Fangzheng pointed it out, they began to face their own problems.
"Then, then … What should we do?"
After a while, a swordsman asked anxiously. Hearing his question, Fangzheng nodded in his heart. Obviously, through his words just now, he had established a trustworthy image in the hearts of these players. What he needed to do next was to deepen this image.
Thinking of this, Fangzheng stretched out two fingers.
"We currently have two solutions."
"Two?"
"That's right. The first is to wait for the government to rescue us."
Fangzheng looked at the players in front of him and began to carefully analyze the situation based on the knowledge he gained after coming to this world.
"You should all be very clear that this is the world's first fully stealth online game, and there are tens of thousands of players participating this time. Now that such a big thing has happened, the government can't just sit back and do nothing. This kind of thing will definitely attract global attention. Even if it's to prevent other countries from blaming them for not doing a good job, the government will still put in a lot of effort to ensure our safety. At the very least, our bodies should be protected, and we won't die from lack of food and water. "
Hearing this, the originally tense expressions of many players eased up a lot. It seemed that many people were indeed worried that they would starve to death in their own beds — a way to die was not worthy of praise at all.
"Although Kayaba Akihiko said that he designed this game, there are enough geniuses in this world. During the period of ensuring our physical safety, the government will certainly gather domestic and foreign experts and scholars to crack the entire server, striving to remove Kayaba Akihiko's blockade and settings. So, our first priority is to ensure that we can survive. Otherwise, if you die in the game and the settings are removed the next day, we will all wake up. Won't that be a great loss for you? "
At the end of his speech, Fangzheng even made a small joke, but no one could laugh at this joke. Indeed, as Fangzheng said, if they died and everyone else left the game the next day, they would really die with regrets!!
"What's the second solution?"
Perhaps because they were a little relieved, the originally tense atmosphere also relaxed a lot. Soon, someone asked. And of course, Fangzheng also gave an answer.
"It's very simple …. Save yourself."
"….???"
"You should have heard from the guy who calls himself Kayaba Akihiko that as long as you can clear 100 floors, everyone can leave the game. Everyone has played online games before, so you should know that this is a long process. Since Kayaba Akihiko set the conditions so high, it shows that he must have enough confidence in his design. So, on the one hand, we need to protect ourselves, on the other hand, we need to be ready for battle. "
Having said that, Fangzheng shrugged.
"Of course, I don't want everyone to fight. You should know that not everyone likes to fight and kill in the game. If you feel like waiting for reinforcements is too slow, then you can choose to fight and control your fate in your own hands. On the other hand, if you don't want to take risks, you can also do logistics, gathering or forging. After all, these professions will also increase the combat power of first-line players, so that we can clear the game faster. "
Hearing Fangzheng's words, many players showed expressions of relief. It was no wonder. The exciting news just now had already made them so confused that they could not think in detail. But Fangzheng was different. First of all, he was already an adult. At least compared to those incompetent junior high school students, he gave people the feeling that he was more trustworthy. Furthermore, he had even revealed that he was a game designer. What he said was logical and easy to convince people.
Furthermore, Fangzheng's charm was very high to begin with. To gain the trust of these players, although it wasn't to say that they would prostrate themselves before him, at the very least, they would listen to his words.
"… I, I want to do logistics. I prefer gathering!"
"Then the task of making potions and gathering will be left to you. Let's go level up!"
"I want to learn forging. I think I can definitely help!"
Looking at the players who had a clear goal and began to discuss with each other, Fangzheng nodded in satisfaction. He then turned around and walked out of the crowd with Lestia and Aster.
"I didn't expect you to say this, Master."
Lestia said with a smile as she followed behind Fangzheng. Fangzheng stretched out his hand and pointed to his head.
"This is a trial of wisdom, Lestia. Remember, wisdom is the most important thing."
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