Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 610: Chapter 578: The Dense “New Game”

“Terraria”, even the 2D version can drive people crazy, let alone the virtual reality version.

Even if it’s been modified during production to reduce some of the outrageous and heavy content, it’s not a game for all ages.

Lincoln decided to abandon the dynamic age rating mechanism and set the game rating directly to [18+] adult level.

Moreover, before entering the game, there is a “Safety Game Notice”, which primarily warns players with high blood pressure, heart disease, claustrophobia, and other conditions that they should [NOT] play this game.

After reading the “Safety Game Notice,” they must sign a “Disclaimer Clause” to begin playing the game.

However, this “Disclaimer Clause” is actually to prevent people from taking advantage of the situation.

If someone is genuinely scared and harmed, Cloud Dream will still pay for their treatment.

But this money is not “compensation”; it is “charitable donation,” which is entirely different in nature.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario. With the Mirage headband’s neural signal monitoring, the emergency disconnection transfer mechanism, and automatic alarm when necessary, such situations should not occur.

Once the game is released, he must find a way to ensure Camille Victoria also comes to play.

Afraid? Don’t want to play?

That’s not allowed.

Even if he has to organize a special “anchor invitation match” or “video uploader invitation match” or something like that, he’ll send her an invitation and bring her to play.

She can’t refuse such courtesy, can she?

Then, use a small account to make a “Scared Piss Compilation” for her, and then go to like and comment with the main account.

An excellent piece of dark history!

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Of course, there is one prerequisite to achieving all this, which is to improve the mod sharing platform.

Previously, he only thought about creating mods and updating them to the main game, and opening up mods was just to enrich the game’s ecosystem and give players more freedom to play.

But who would have thought that after only a few days of opening up mods, people started selling them for money privately…

This made the standardization of mods imperative.

Otherwise, he can’t sue players for illegal profits, can he?

Although he could win 100%, that’s not Cloud Dream’s style, nor Lincoln’s style.

Guiding player behavior is more to his liking.

With that in mind, Lincoln planned to go to the “My World” development team to push this matter forward.

But looking at the time, there are still 25 minutes until work. It’s too early to go there.

So what should he do now?

Tease the employees?

Join the small group chat, interrupt these happy subordinates, say hello and then run, letting them suspect each other and play a game of “Who’s the Mole?”

Forget it.

Such a stimulating activity early in the morning might not be good for the cardiovascular system.

After thinking about it, Lincoln switched back to Camille Victoria’s posted video and left a comment below-

“This revenge, I remember!”

Revenge is one thing, but when a friend starts a new sideline, he should help if he can.

This is called clear distinction between love and hate.

As expected, Lincoln’s appearance immediately raised the excitement of the comment section to a whole new level.

Countless netizens started replying to him, stirring things up, provoking discord in the comment section, and @more friends to watch the excitement.

This pushed the video’s popularity higher and higher, and Camille Victoria’s fan growth speed also visibly began to soar.

– When Camille Victoria published the video, she didn’t include the keyword [Lincoln] in the title, description, or video tags.

This was clearly not conducive to the video’s explosion in popularity.

Especially when it comes to the title, if she had put the keyword [Lincoln] in the title, both the explosion speed of views and the retention rate of netizens would have been even better.

Lincoln’s appearance, however, made up for that.

As he was satisfied watching the funny replies from the netizens, the group chats suddenly became lively, with messages pouring in non-stop.

Lincoln opened it and found that it was from the Battlefield development team and the My World development team.

Randall and Little Chun hadn’t announced their wedding plans widely, nor did they intend to announce it in the company’s group chat.

They had only shared their joy with a few close friends.

But it was not something that needed to be kept secret, so it naturally spread to the development team groups they led.

As a result, the two groups became lively instantly, the atmosphere was as lively as the New Year gathering, with all kinds of blessings and auspicious words pouring out non-stop.

Randall was probably driving, so only Little Chun appeared to chat with everyone and thanked them for their blessings.

She also shared her joy by sending out red packets.

It wasn’t until 9 o’clock that Little Chun reminded everyone that it was work time, gave instructions on today’s work tasks, and then disappeared first without bubbling up any more, and the excited atmosphere in the group chat gradually subsided.

Then Lincoln put down his mobile phone and went to their virtual office to explain the requirements for the mod-sharing platform.

In terms of technology, the platform’s construction was not complicated—

At first, when players logged into My World, there were two options: [Personal World] and [Public World]. Now they only needed to add a [Mod World] option.

However, for [Mod World], the mechanisms of “creation”, “release”, “review”, “selling”, “searching”, “complaints”, as well as player “ratings”, “refund complaints” and so on must all be integrated.

As for the income issue of mod creators, they have two options:

1: Charge for releasing mods, with a 7-3 split between them and Cloud Dream.

This is a common profit-sharing ratio used by Cloud Dream.

However, this condition is not available for any mod. To protect the interests of ordinary players, Lincoln will set three standards—

1. Innovative gameplay.

2. A certain proportion of original content.

3. Overall quality meets the pass line.

As long as one of the above three standards is met, this profit-sharing mode can be chosen.

There is also an additional restriction: if the overall rating of the mod by players after sale is below the passing line and the reputation is very poor, the profit-sharing channel will be frozen, and the mod will no longer be able to be sold by the creator.

This is mainly to ensure the long-term game experience of players and avoid situations where “it’s fun when you buy it, but it gets worse as you update it”, ensuring that developers pay long-term attention to players’ opinions and don’t disgust players with shoddy work.

Besides charging for releasing mods, mod developers have a second option—

Free release of mods.

Free mods have no restrictions, and anyone can release them as long as they don’t violate mod usage rules.

Moreover, releasing for free doesn’t mean there’s no income at all.

Developers can still get income from player rewards, donations, and other support.

In addition, Lincoln plans to set up “Monthly”, “Quarterly”, and “Annual” Top 10 Mod Selection, specifically for selecting outstanding mods from free mods and giving cash rewards.

Also, the source of cash rewards doesn’t require any additional funds from Cloud Dream, as they can be taken from the profit-sharing of paid mods.

In this way, [Charge] and [Free] complement each other, and the My World mod-sharing platform can maintain a relatively stable ecology, allowing for long-term and healthy development, giving the game endless vitality.

With Little Chun on leave, Clark, though unwilling, had no choice but to temporarily take responsibility and coordinate the development of the mod-sharing platform.

Lincoln told them his requirements and ideas one by one and explained in detail the reasons and purposes behind each requirement so that all developers could work with clear and specific goals.

Combined with the many details they discussed yesterday, the specific functionality and implementation of the sharing platform were basically formed.

Next, it was a race to develop the platform in a fast pace, using the existing technical framework of My World; the workload wasn’t that big.

Also, since their team had completed the development of Witch, most of the staff were now free, so Clark confidently reported a development time of 3 days to Lincoln.

Actually, she thought 2 days would be enough.

However, she was not the real leader of the team, which made her lack confidence; she subconsciously reported an extra day.

Lincoln didn’t think much about it and nodded affirmatively, encouraging everyone before leaving.

He still wanted to prepare a gift for Randall and Little Chun.

However, he hadn’t decided when to release the gift.

In addition to the mods released by players and studios, there are two mods to be released by Cloud Dream alone: Terraria and Witch, plus one more gift.

Considering that each mod is almost equivalent to a new game for players, this frequency is somewhat intense…