Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch-Chapter 337 - 333: If You’d Sent it Earlier, I Wouldn’t Have Sent it!
Chapter 337: Chapter 333: If You’d Sent it Earlier, I Wouldn’t Have Sent it! 𝖋𝖗𝖊𝖊𝔴𝖊𝖇𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖑.𝖈𝖔𝖒
Translator: 549690339
“Are you fucking insane?!”
Jason rarely lost his cool in the company, but now he cursed in front of his employees.
It was just 10 minutes earlier!!
Today, after arriving at the company and finishing the morning meeting, they also noticed Cloud Dream’s post.
There were competitions, invitation letters, and many noises, but it was all about old games, and it shouldn’t pose a threat to the release of “Blaze 3” DLC.
So, they announced their blockbuster news as planned—
‘The first large-scale DLC for “Blaze 3”, “Red Flame”, will be launched on November 1st!’
In the trailer, players not only continue the story from the game’s ending and enter the underground base, face a more complicated environment, and fight more intense battles with more powerful enemies, but also see big fish on the surface.
Players will be fully armed, leaving their own small world, and, following clues, head to a sea island.
They will meet new friends, beautiful girls, and, of course, various enemies on the way.
Until finally, at the real enemy’s main hideout, there’s a final, lopsided battle where every one of them will fight against thousands of enemies!
This is the masterpiece Jason led the team to complete. With its massive content, it could have been released as a standalone game in the past.
In the field of VR games, the significance of this DLC is even a milestone.
For this reason, Jason and his team members have been working overtime, pulling all-nighters, and with Jason leading by example, motivating and dangling cash bonus, they have persevered.
All aimed at winning this showdown and reversing their reputation in the industry!
But just 10 minutes after their trailer and announcement came out, Cloud Dream released their new game trailer too!
And it’s next Friday! Just a few days ahead of their DLC release!
This made Jason and Gary wonder: Is Lincoln deliberately sniping at them?
And who leaked the release date of our game?
Or even the exact time of the official announcement?!
But one thing is certain, the hottest topic among players on the Internet has now all changed into: “The second masterpiece in virtual reality games—’Speed Chase’!”
This carefully crafted promotional material was supposed to create a huge sensation and ignite lively discussions among players, even dividing them into two factions debating whether “Blaze 3·Red Flame” could turn the tide.
However, due to the too-short exposure time, the sensation hadn’t really begun and was quickly drowned out by the hype around “Speed Chase.”
After all, by now, their player base has been outpaced by an order of magnitude by Cloud Dream’s virtual reality games!
This huge gap is not easy to bridge.
Not to mention the high price of VR devices, which basically eliminates the possibility of them making a big splash by game quality alone.
Jason: “Wrong place, wrong time!”
Richard: “Wesley! When the hell can we make our virtual reality devices?! Huh? Give me a time!!”
Wesley was annoyed: Who the fuck am *I* supposed to ask? I’m fucking fed up too! These technicians say the code-writing is like moving a mountain! Who knows when it’ll be done!
Gary: “Why did it have to be 10 minutes? Why couldn’t you have sent it earlier? If you sent it earlier, I wouldn’t have fucking sent mine!”
But this really can’t be blamed on Lincoln.
Yes, Lincoln did think of sniping them once, but considering Fred and their other colleagues still at NetDragon, he had personal relations with some of them.
Probing for information at this time would make enemies out of friends after the sniping. That’s just not appropriate.
So he dropped the idea.
Today’s delay was simply because he was caught up in sending out invitations to players, and checking the trailer one last time, which delayed him by a few minutes.
He didn’t even see the “Blaze 3·Red Flame” DLC news until after sending out the closed beta invitations announcement.
However—
“It’s all about fate.”
“It’s all good, it’s all good.”
After laughing for a while, Lincoln reminded Mavis, “If they change the date, let me know.”
“Okay!” Mavis agreed in one bite.
One must take advantage of the opportunity when it comes, so they shouldn’t let them escape easily!
After that, Lincoln started fishing—er, monitoring the players’ reactions to the trailer release.
Of course, the anchor he was most concerned about was “Yelang a bit big.”
This guy’s process of raising the stakes, Mavis had already informed him.
Now, staring at his live broadcast room, they wanted to see if he would raise the stakes again.
After all, every time he raises the stakes, some viewers do the same.
Now his cross-dressing, silicone lower body, fake breasts, and diehard bets on the other end are paid gifts from thousands of players, including over a thousand rockets.
As long as they can win the bet, they’ll definitely make a fortune in one swoop!
Moreover, Lincoln felt that this guy, with his silicone upper and lower body plus diehard fan attire, had all the equipment he needed. Adding a little more to the bet and going to a water park for a day wouldn’t be too much, would it?
He only regretted that his identity was special and he could not personally compete with Yelang’s somewhat larger bet—if he really went on, everyone would know what would happen!
Lincoln could only eat melon seeds on the side and lament that the viewers in Yelang’s live broadcast room were really not giving it their all!
What a bunch of fake fans!
If it were Yi’s live broadcast room, the bets would have been pushed to the sky by the fans long ago.
Bets like “go to a maid cafe to work”, “part-time one-day girlfriend”, “offline beauty game partner” would definitely be opened!
Unlike now, there are not many people in the live broadcast room to push the bets.
Yelang didn’t hold out much hope after applying for the beta test, so he clicked on the trailer again and studied it while watching.
In fact, it was just a blind guess.
Actually, most of the anchors are doing similar things now.
However, due to the lessons learned from the “Old Man Talks about Games,” no marketing channels dared to mess around this time, rebroadcasting the trailer with some nonsense voiceover and making paid videos to rip off the players.
Because everyone knows that Lincoln will really give you trouble!
There are still a group of anchors and video uploaders who, because they are blacklisted by Lincoln, can’t broadcast Cloud Dream games.
They bought Cloud Dream’s Mirage Console and games, and played as usual, but as soon as they dared to broadcast it publicly, they would receive a lawyer’s letter the next day, and a court subpoena on the third or fourth day.
Then just wait to pay the money!
Lincoln took a stroll in a few familiar live broadcast rooms.
In Camille Victoria’s live broadcast room, after she had applied, she was still worried about whether she could get the closed beta qualification or not.
According to the announcement, whether or not they could participate in the beta test was all about luck.
Although they had a 10% chance, which was quite impressive compared to one in ten thousand, it is not that high for an individual.
So Camille Victoria was very worried that she wouldn’t get the qualification.
However, the audience in her live broadcast room didn’t worry at all.
One old fan even sent a comment directly saying: “No way! You two are in a relationship! I dare to bet that you will be drawn! If you are not drawn, I will eat this table in front of me!”
Upon seeing this sentence, Camille Victoria immediately objected!
“You want to bet again? Last time you said if Cloud Dream really launched the [Mirage 2.0] Console, you’d eat the display, I haven’t even asked for that debt yet! Did you eat it?”
“Eat the display first, then we’ll talk about eating the table!”
As soon as this was said, it immediately evoked the memory of the audience in the live broadcast room, and they began to rake up old accounts:
“What about the one who said he would wash his hair in a handstand?”
“What about the one who said he would buy a million Mirage consoles and give each of our brothers in the live broadcast room one?”
“What about the one who said he would lick the anchor’s foot?”
“Here, here!” “Me, me, me!” “I can do it now!”
“Keep your word, I’m coming! prprprprpr”
Watching this group of inexplicably emerging perverts, Lincoln immediately leaned back and left the live broadcast room.
However, it was wise for Camille Victoria not to bet.
Because she was bound to lose.
Those familiar with Lincoln who applies will definitely be selected.
He doesn’t mind making things easier for familiar players in such situations.
Camille Victoria, Yi, Super Tomato, Shuihua, Lance, and others had already been listed on the closed beta invitation list by Lincoln.
These people do not occupy other players’ beta quotas and are outside the 3,000 players.
Anyway, whether there is exactly 3,000 players or a little over 3,000 invited, isn’t it up to him?
