Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 231 - 228 Paying You to Play Games
Chapter 231: Chapter 228: Paying You to Play Games
Chapter 231 -228: Paying You to Play Games
Once Yin Hui opened his eyes again, he found himself in a pure white space.
This was a common space for creating game accounts, and Yin Hui had gone through the process of creating game accounts countless times.
But the key was what the performance of this game was like.
He looked down at his hands. Right now, Yin Hui was wearing the most top-notch and expensive sensory simulation suit on the market, which claimed to simulate 99% of the in-game tactile experience.
That was, of course, just an advertisement’s exaggeration. Even if the sensory suit really could achieve this, the game’s performance wouldn’t be able to make full use of it.
In games, players’ sense of touch and smell were the least important and most difficult to replicate; the focus was mainly on the visual effects of the graphics and the auditory effects.
This time, aside from coming to experience the game Holy Spirit, he was also prepared to do an in-depth review to determine if the game Holy Spirit had… investment value.
That’s not right… There was absolutely investment value in Holy Spirit; the key was to what extent it was valuable!
It took Yin Hui less than a minute to create his account. He just slightly tweaked his appearance, changed his hair color to his favorite silver-gray, and named his game ID “Yin Hui.”
The initial weapon was a pair of gauntlets.
In Holy Spirit, one didn’t need to choose a profession at the start; profession change quests would appear between levels fifteen and eighteen.
Yin Hui pressed the character creation button directly. The pure white space around him started to rapidly fade away, and after about a minute of loading, sunlight pierced Yin Hui’s eyes.
The magnificent Lionheart City appeared before him.
“It’s no surprise that the graphics are top-notch,” Yin Hui judged the level of Holy Spirit’s graphics at first glance; they were at least the best among all VR games on the market.
He had experienced this while watching game livestreams.
“The in-game audio is also perfect; with so many people on the same screen and no lag, is it because of the VR device or the game optimization?”
Yin Hui stood in front of the grand cathedral in Lionheart City, and since Jiang Qiao had issued sixty thousand gaming slots in one go, and since Holy Spirit didn’t have anything like a game channel.
So, in an instant, nearly thirty to forty thousand newcomers were crowding the main city of Lionheart City in Holy Spirit; it was even busier than during Holy Spirit’s second test!
The sea of people reminded Yin Hui of the time he visited the Great Wall during the National Holiday…
“Newbies in front, looking for veterans to lead!”
“Light Mage Guild in front, taking newbies unconditionally!”
“Cola Mania… Any brothers want to raise a dragon? Those who want to raise dragons, come to the blacksmith shop entrance to join the guild!”
This was definitely a successful optimization. Yin Hui could assure that with thirty to forty thousand people on the same screen… his VR device, if switched to this game, would likely have the CPU and graphics card temperatures soar past a hundred degrees, ready to commit suicide.
Yin Hui pulled up the game’s main menu and turned the volume down a bit. His in-depth game review had just begun; leveling up was just one part of the review process.
His next step… was to confirm the game’s tactile simulation, as well as the extent to which game details had been implemented.
The best way was to squat down and grab a handful of soil.
Yin Hui squatted directly on the ground, grabbed a handful of soil from the garden next to the cathedral. In Conflict, only a small part of the terrain in the game could be destroyed… an action like grabbing soil like this didn’t exist in Conflict.
But it was possible in Holy Spirit…
“This is… kind of insane,” Yin Hui remarked as he looked at the soil and grit in his palm, detailed to the point of no discernible difference from reality, even including the slightly moist touch of the soil, all precisely conveyed to his fingertips.
If it weren’t for the pile of soil in Yin Hui’s palm disappearing quickly and the ground soil refilling itself, he would have really believed he was in the real world.
“What help does such a restoration of touch bring to gameplay?” he wondered as he looked at the disappearing soil in his hand.
However… some newly released VR games could also achieve this, but they were mainly single-player games with a focus on realism. A massive online game system wouldn’t allow programmers to program the touch of soil so realistically.
If he were the planner for the game Holy Spirit, he would definitely scold the programmers: “Are you out of your mind putting in all that space-consuming material into the game?”
But Holy Spirit managed to do it, and it wasn’t just dirt.
Yin Hui fingered a fallen leaf on the ground, the tender leaf blades and the slightly harder veins were perfectly restored to touch.
In any online game Yin Hui pointed to, leaves were just there to set the atmosphere; they’d dissolve on a player like rainwater.
What about other things?
Yin Hui then touched the stone steps that made up the cathedral, where one could even see some pebbles. The only unrealism came from the fact that stepping on them would leave no marks or stains.
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Finally, his hand rested on a player’s armor as he felt the lines of the armor.
“What are you doing?” Mo Shigui looked at Yin Hui and asked.
“Coach Song, don’t you think the game technology here far exceeds that of current VR games?” Yin Hui retracted his hand, holding a pebble he’d picked up from the cathedral’s steps, observing it closely in the sunlight.
If he had a microscope, he would certainly put the pebble under it, but the game included a magnifying feature. Even magnified, the pebble clearly showed it was modeled; there were no annoying things like dust or grime. It was clean enough to satisfy even someone with a mania for cleanliness to moan with pleasure.
“I don’t think so,” Mo Shigui said.
“That’s because you haven’t played enough games, Coach Song. I remember you only play online games, right?” Yin Hui said.
“…”
Mo Shigui really had no comeback. He was indeed an online gaming veteran who never touched single-player or mobile games, which made him adept at predicting online game developers’ psychology. However, when it came to the game technology that Yin Hui mentioned, he wasn’t able to judge.
“If you want to level up, better start now. There are lots of new players in the starter area, and it’s not convenient for this ID to roam around here.”
Mo Shigui was currently dressed in a beginner’s outfit, and even removed the title above his head. If he had come wearing a full set of Black Dragon Volcano’s graduation gear, he probably would have been swarmed by newbies.
“Don’t rush, all the major guilds are recruiting new members now, right?” Yin Hui pointed to the dialog boxes popping up on the distant street where a bunch of guilds were frantically recruiting new players as they poured in.
“Our sub-guilds are already on it,” Mo Shigui said.
The maximum number of members Holy Spirit Guild could have was one thousand. The Dancing Nuclear Guild pursued an elite policy, with exactly five hundred members, all of whom were max-level graduates. Even the few non-graduates were talented individuals in life skill professions.
But the influx of fresh blood was necessary, so Mo Shigui had someone create a sub-guild called Dancing Atom, and had already started recruiting new players in Lionheart City.
“Sub-guilds, right. But that means our competitiveness isn’t great enough,” Yin Hui said while looking at the guilds recruiting in the distance. The top eight guilds, along with some other guilds founded by ordinary players, were all recruiting.
“We’re the most popular guild in all of Holy Spirit, and the club’s popularity in real life is high enough. We’ve already recruited fifty-three new members.” Mo Shigui said.
“Not enough. We don’t know when Holy Spirit will distribute activation codes on a large scale next time. This is an opportunity we can’t miss. Let’s change the recruitment slogan,” Yin Hui said.
“Change to what?”
“Join the guild, and if you level up to 45 within one month, you get a 3000-yuan subsidy. From then on, players who participate in instance raids and level up actively every month will receive a 3000-yuan base subsidy, and exceptional contributors will get a commission,” Yin Hui explained.
“I’ll pass it on, but what’s the point?”
Three thousand yuan is neither a lot nor a little by current standards, just enough to be considered a low-income salary.
But the point was that one could earn this low-income salary by just playing games! This could be something countless players dream about!
In fact, the elite strategy teams were also paid to play games, but they had the capability, being the top players of Holy Spirit, and they could be considered registered employees of the Dancing Nuclear Corporation.
But dispensing salaries to these newbies who had recently started the game, a group of unfamiliar newbies… that was somewhat hard to comprehend.
“I’ve said it before, the slots to play Holy Spirit are precious. We don’t know when there will be such a large influx of newbies again. Every player who gets the chance to play Holy Spirit is chosen. Have you forgotten you were a Holy Spirit tester? Couldn’t defeat the seals, so you joined them, right?”
Yin Hui had a deep understanding of this.
“Moreover, I think Holy Spirit has the potential, and I look forward to its development in the future.”
