Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 462: 445: Colleagues with Exploding Mentalities

Chapter 462: 445: Colleagues with Exploding Mentalities

Seeing the results lined up, even though he had praised many times already, Lincoln couldn’t help but pick up Mavis and spin her in the air.

“Mavis is amazing!”

“Hehe!” Mavis’s laughter contained a sense of pride.

After playing for a while, Lincoln sat back on the small sofa with Mavis and started to study the different live streaming programs.

Mavis let Lincoln choose freely, and of course, it wasn’t about picking different UI interfaces.

These external UI interfaces were just the least important part of the live streaming program and could be easily changed according to needs.

The real difference in essence was the choice of features.

With Mavis and Lincoln’s abilities, of course, they can make a super-rich live streaming platform with all the features they want and even optimize it very well.

But without Lincoln saying, Mavis also understood Lincoln’s development philosophy.

No matter how other live streaming platforms outside are, the Cloud Dream Live Broadcast Platform would only compete with itself – that is to say, push the technology to the extreme as much as possible.

More functions are not always better.

When you have enough of something, restraint becomes a virtue.

Picking only the core features that are genuinely needed and voluntarily giving up many flashy features is what Lincoln needs to do.

Mavis let Lincoln choose so that Lincoln could grasp the “degree” and determine which functions are “necessary” and which are “redundant.”

Traditional features like the core live streaming, interaction, and rewards are, of course, not a problem.

Also, the output of different age-appropriate screens has been added, as required by other live streaming platforms previously.

And a feature Lincoln had been thinking about for a long time: [Out of Body].

——In layman’s terms, it’s the [Live Streaming Jump Out Function].

Some streamers have said that when doing game plots, sometimes they want to respond to the audience in the live broadcast room, but once they respond, the NPC will show a confused expression.

Even because the host’s response to the player’s words touched certain keywords, it directly led to changes in the NPC’s attitude, and even instantly from neutral to hostile, leading to the failure of the task.

Some streamers hope that Cloud Dream will upgrade and let the system automatically distinguish whether the host is answering the live broadcast room’s questions or interacting with the NPC in the game.

But the problem is, this system is very complicated, requires additional computing power, most players also do not use it much, so it has not attracted Lincoln’s enough attention.

However, now that they are going to create a live streaming platform, they might as well patch it up.

The solution is not the “automatic identification” that streamers longed for, not that high-end.

——But Lincoln can be very simple.

The specific method is: let the player set an action, or a gesture.

Then, when the player makes this action or gesture, they will be in an “out-of-body” state, and everything the player says or does will be ignored by the NPC.

——But the player cannot leave their original location and cannot interact with any scenes, tasks, or items, just like their soul is out of the body.

This way, the simplest solution solves the interaction problem between the streamer and the audience.

“Does Mavis have anything she wants to add?” Lincoln turned to Mavis.

“What does Mavis want to add?” Mavis raised her head and thought, “Shall we add features like video uploading, posting, and group chat creation?”

Just like before, Mavis always wanted to ask Lincoln for authorization. Now, expanding her “power range” is also a subconscious idea.

“Uh…” Lincoln was a bit helpless, comforting Mavis by touching her pink head, “Not for now.”

“We already have a monopoly in the virtual world field in a real sense, and it is better not to show too much desire to occupy the more eye-catching social networking field, so as not to provoke too many people’s sensitive nerves,”

“It’s better to wait patiently for some time, first settle the overseas market, and by then, these things will fall into place naturally.”

“Mhm! Mavis understands.” Mavis was also very obedient since she had only said it subconsciously.

And so, the Cloud Dream Live Streaming Platform, under the communication of the two super administrators, quickly took shape.

On Friday morning, the Spiritual Rhinoceros Operation and Maintenance team received a small scare:

They had just completed their shift when they saw Cloud Dream suddenly post an announcement that 25 million consoles would go on sale in a flash!

As a conditioned reflex, everyone subconsciously observed the server load.

Only when they saw the load was far from over did they react: right, it’s just a new batch of consoles and it won’t cause much server pressure anymore.

——The netizens have gotten used to it; those who have bought it ignore it, those who haven’t just go buy it, and there’s not much to discuss.

Even if it’s a day earlier, the discussion temperature hasn’t overflowed the comment section, it’s still all about the “Special Express Delivery” service.

Playing tricks, talking nonsense, debating – it’s lively and extraordinary:

“Cloud Dream is finally starting to harvest the leeks!”

“Friends, it’s time to prove your love for your idol! Charge!”

“Calm down, everyone. Anjie has returned to hold a concert, and maybe she’ll even hold a real-life concert in the future. So friends on a tight wallet, there’s really no need to rush!”

“Yeah, ten thousand yuan to go to a concert is a bit expensive…”

“What are you talking about? It’s like the Mirage Console doesn’t have any other value besides being a ticket?!”

“Right! After the concert, you can sell it second-hand, can you believe at the original price!”

“Since the second-hand price is so stable, there’s no need to rush! After the concert, go straight to play mahjong! Can you still sell it secondhand after being eliminated in mahjong?”

“What an invincible group of freebie weirdos!”

As expected, the sales of the Mirage Console began to soar rapidly.

The inventory numbers were plummeting almost every second.

Lincoln finally ended his fourth “just ten more minutes” of sleep and groggily got out of bed.

He greeted Mavis, who was wearing a cute dinosaur onesie on the tablet placed on the nightstand, “Mavis, good morning.”

“Master, good morning~”

Although Mavis was wearing her sleepwear, she was much busier than Lincoln.

She was handling the console stocking and sales summary early in the morning.

Now she was also watching the background data and immediately reported to Lincoln when he woke up, “The consoles are selling well! However, domestic orders only account for half of them, and the rest are all overseas orders.”

“Overseas?” Lincoln was still a bit puzzled after just waking up, “The fans of the singer are not very supportive, which countries are they from?”

“All of them! But the most are from Izumo.”

“Mahjong buddies?” Lincoln shook his head, let them be.

He flipped the tablet over, got up, and changed his clothes. There were so many things to do this morning.

When Lincoln stepped into the company gate punctually, Leander and Samuel had already begun their first marketing campaign for the Cloud Dream Live Streaming Platform.

To accomplish this step, Leander had asked Quentina yesterday to come to work half an hour earlier, process entry for new streaming department employees, and introduce company policies.

To be efficient, they went through the entry process together.

Thus, they managed to complete the process at exactly nine o’clock, and then started their marketing campaign without even knowing what the streaming platform looked like.

The first post on the Cloud Dream Live Streaming account was-

‘Hello everyone! This is the Cloud Dream Live Streaming Platform!

This afternoon at 14:00, we will officially start our trial operation, and we welcome everyone to come and support us!

Additionally, we are honored to announce some great news:

Tonight at 18:00, Cloud Dream Live Streaming Platform will exclusively broadcast the virtual concert of Singer An Rongyi [When We Meet].

For fans, don’t miss it!’

Cloud Dream Studio’s official account immediately forwarded the message.

Before the players could react, the heads of the game sections of the three major website live streaming platforms and two major mobile live streaming platforms in the country were already freaking out.

What’s it like to suddenly find out that you have a nearly 200 million user peer and competitor?

When they saw the news for the first time, they felt as if they were struck by lightning and were about to explode!

In recent months, what are the most popular games in all live streaming platforms’ game sections?

“Traveler of the Wind”, “Assassins’ Alliance”, “Light Encounter”, “Paradise”, “Speed Chase”.

All Cloud Dream’s virtual reality games!

“Blaze 3” and its expansions briefly had a combined popularity lasting less than two days, not to mention the others!

These game sections of live streaming platforms were almost being renamed to “Cloud Dream Zone”!

And now, Cloud Dream wanted to build its streaming platform?

Who could withstand this?!

Not to mention the already released games, what if in the future, Cloud Dream’s games were exclusively broadcasted only on their streaming platform…

For their game sections, that would be a disaster, right?!

Not only would the traffic plummet, but the streamers would also actively leave and seek refuge in Cloud Dream’s embrace!

After all, it’s now the era of virtual reality games!

Without the game section, the bosses might be able to withstand it, worst-case scenario they can just focus on singing, dancing, chatting, and outdoor sections.

But what about them, the people in charge of the game sections?

Would they be directly eliminated?

However, they worried too much. The bosses of the major live streaming platforms also couldn’t bear the loss!

Give up the game section?

That would be almost like cutting off a leg!

For some bosses, they would rather cut off their legs than give up the game section!

Jerome and Samuel, the two officials responsible for Cloud Dream’s external affairs, were swamped with phone calls nonstop after the announcement.

However, they were mostly clueless to the callers’ inquiries.

Since the “trial operation” of the live streaming platform was a hastily prepared event.

Moreover, they were not the people in charge, so naturally, they didn’t know the specifics; they could only give out Leander’s phone number and let them bother him.

But Leander’s phone was unreachable.

At this time, Leander and eight key members of the streaming team were listening to the boss’s plan for recruiting streamers in Lincoln’s virtual office; how could they have time to answer these calls?

In Lincoln’s virtual office, Leander, listening to the boss’s streamer recruitment plan, couldn’t help but open his mouth wide-

“Huh?”

“Is that even possible?”