novelraw Chapter 842 - 208: So It Really Was Young Master Xu
Chapter 842 - 208: So It Really Was Young Master Xu
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After finishing the conversation with Rong Xiyi, Xu Lin opened the backend of "Man’s Guide to Reversing Fortune" on his computer.
Two more days had passed.
How many people have purchased characters?
Xu Lin glanced at it.
2,136,585 people!
He didn’t expect it to reach 2.13 million people.
Xu Lin was a little surprised. After all, he initially predicted that the number would reach one million in two days, but he didn’t expect it to directly surpass two million.
Looking at the Steam comment section, it was filled with comments expressing shock and urging for plot updates.
Besides these two types of comments, there were also others.
For instance, there was a kind of comment asking to expand the map and activity range.
Xu Lin, for the sake of convenience, had not developed more areas at the moment.
In the game, there are currently only two main locations: the neighborhood where the protagonist is and the company. The rest are some insignificant small locations, and the game world can be teleported. Otherwise, if it were really like reality, such as commuting half an hour to work, and that’s half an hour by car, who would have the mind to commute in the game.
Therefore, currently, players can’t go to many places. For example, in the neighborhood, the protagonist takes the elevator upstairs, but cannot go to other floors, only the floor he’s on. The same goes for the company. The protagonist’s company is on the 31st floor of a commercial building, going directly up by elevator without access to other floors.
So overall, the map is very small.
And it’s not that Xu Lin doesn’t want to expand, it’s that his hardware can’t keep up.
If he had several million or hundreds of thousands of servers, plus a bunch of top-notch technical staff, Xu Lin could move the entire Jiangdu into it.
Is Jiangdu big?
Of course, it’s huge, with a population of over 20 million.
Australia is just the size of an airport in Jiangdu, and Hong Kong Island’s area is six times that of Jiangdu.
Moreover, Xu Lin is putting Jiangdu in a one-to-one ratio, not compressing it.
But technology is a comprehensive concept, like a mobile phone; it’s an aggregation of many technologies, not something you could just make by hand two decades ago.
Xu Lin looked at the comments for a while, then checked the rankings on Little Black Box. It was already at the top of the most popular list, and on Steam, it reached the top of the featured list, all in very prominent positions.
"If only there were a company."
Xu Lin suddenly thought about this, having a company would allow him to do more things, and by that time, it would be easier to make money.
However, Xu Lin, on second thought, felt it would be too much effort.
Xu Lin is someone who cherishes efforts and simplifies wherever possible.
Moreover, more importantly, if he had a company, many unpredictable problems for Xu Lin would arise.
One must know, everything in the world has both positive and negative sides. Xu Lin can’t just think of the good side without looking at the bad side.
For instance, with a company, he would need to shoulder corresponding social responsibilities and engage in strategic battles with various companies.
Business and politics are the same; both are bloody slaughterhouses.
For example, if your idea or project is valuable, a big company wants to buy you out, but you refuse to sell, then the big company doesn’t argue and directly copies you, or skips the buying step and just copies outright, and then you decide to sue to protect your rights, it gets even more interesting. In the end, you’ll find you can’t even win a lawsuit against them.
Particularly once you become big, the problems you’ll face will grow larger and more complex. Even when you reach a certain position, it’s no longer within your control; you’ll be pushed along. For example, the company needs to shoulder a portion of the city’s employment and tax revenue. At that time, if you say you don’t want to do it anymore, that won’t work.
Just like in ancient times, if you commanded an army of ten thousand, or even just two or three thousand, even if you didn’t want to seize power, you would have to. When it gets cold, naturally someone would put the yellow robe on you. If you don’t want the yellow robe, naturally someone will help you put it on elegantly.
Xu Lin realized these things, so he didn’t have much thought of starting a company; it could only be a fleeting idea.
"Let’s see next year; maybe I can set up a studio, and do some small-scale actions by then, elite staff, just a dozen people will do."
Xu Lin opened the development program.
This was his dedicated Chinese programming development program.
That night, Xu Lin didn’t sleep, spending more than seven hours developing the third part of the game.
This part includes two aspects: one, the protagonist further gaining the female lead’s trust; the other is the protagonist collecting evidence of the adulterers’ misconduct. There’s not much to say about such a plot; just keep extending it.
Another thing, Xu Lin plans to open up a larger map area.
But the servers are insufficient.
"I need to rent some servers."
A little past four in the morning, Xu Lin checked his latest Wealth Value.
It’s now mid-November, and his online article royalties arrived a couple of days ago, over six million, plus the remaining over three million he originally had; Xu Lin currently has a total savings of only 9.36 million.
How much would it cost to rent ten thousand cloud servers from Alibaba Cloud for a month?
The next day, when Xu Lin had some downtime at the Hengdian studio, he called Alibaba Cloud service provider.
Finally, Xu Lin was quoted a price of four hundred million a year for ten thousand Shenlong Cloud Servers, which breaks down to over thirty million a month.