Chapter 338 - Rich Players Didn’t Win This Time (1/2)
Many players were whining about the card collection guidance task.
The unlucky players were exasperated upon seeing that other players and NPCs managed to find the rare cards. They wanted to quit the game.
However, when those players had a stroke of luck and discovered a rare card, their faces instantly brightened up.
If one frankly spoke, this card collection guidance task was targeted at the rich players.
Some players liked to use the internet banking function in ‘Gods’.
Others liked to conduct transactions with gold coins.
For example, they traded with some NPCs that possess rare cards!
Many players from the Grand Deity team could sense William’s hostility towards them, just because they were rich players.
What did being a rich player mean?
Manuals and equipment that others didn’t have access to? A rich player could own those in advance.
The aim of rich players was to be the one with the best equipment and weapons on the streets.
The rich players in a game world were most valuable when their ‘keep up with the Joneses’ mentality was magnified.
As the team captain of the Grand Deity team, Lucky Dream scoffed at the lady who had offered 20,000 RMB in the forum for buying William’s card.
He immediately bought ten magic megaphone scrolls, which cost 500 gold coins each. They served as megaphones in the regional chat.
He started yelling in the City of Dawn chat. “I’m offering 50 gold coins for a normal card, 1000 gold coins for an Epic NPC card, 3000 to 10000 gold coins for a Legendary NPC card. I’ll offer 100,000 RMB for William’s card.
“I’m Lucky Dream, and I’m at the central plaza now. Anyone who wants to sell their cards can come and find me.
“The Grand Deity team will accept all the cards you sell.”
Everyone cursed when they saw the message.
“You can do anything you want when you’re rich.”
“The Grand Deity team is awesome. They must own a gold mine to want to buy all our cards!”
“They probably own seven or eight gold mines…”
“Well, are you going to sell your cards?”
“If we don’t sell our cards, we can only exchange them for experience points. But if we want experience points, we can complete missions. Since we can exchange our cards for money, why give up such an obvious benefit?”
Evidently, that was the thought-process of most of the players.
The ordinary players knew that they couldn’t collect all 100 cards. They had faced a lot of trouble collecting even 50 cards. So, they thought they would be better off selling their cards to Lucky Dream.
After all, Lucky Dream was a filthy rich player and a man of his word.
He was the one with the best equipment in the City of Dawn for both Version 1.0 and 2.0. It would be a good decision to sell him their cards.
However, as the ‘Gods’ game had grown more popular, how could this worldwide game only have one rich player team?
Although it was true that all the members of the Grand Deity team were rich players, China was a big country, and there were too many rich people.
After Lucky Dream made his statement, the megaphone rang again. “Hi everyone! We are from Mars. We are new players who have just joined in Version 3.0.
“I, Martian Power, like what Lucky Dream has offered, will also start buying cards from you guys. I’ll pay on the delivery of the cards. I’m willing to buy gold coins at a higher price too. Anyone who has gold coins to sell can find me to strike a deal.”
“Damn…”
“Are Martians using the Internet now?”
“Ahem! There has not been much publicity about ‘Gods’. It is really astonishing how Martians can find this game.”
“By the way, what games do Martians usually play?” Someone suddenly asked.
“They are a bunch of boors, so they normally engage in real-life-combat.”
“Wait! You mean they actually fight in real life? Not like in the video game Mortal Kombat?”
“Yes. They don’t fancy playing online games. They prefer engaging in real-life-combat.”
“Tsk tsk! Do virtual games not satisfy them? They’re going to make life harder for us…”
Subsequently, more rich players appeared in the City of Dawn.
For example, players from the Moon. They had formed a small guild and had also started shouting in the regional chat.
However, regardless of which planet they were from, the rich players chose to make rational purchases. They bought the cards at market price. None of them seemed to be competing for cards and offering higher prices.
But this wasn’t a situation that someone wanted to see.
As a result, several weird messages appeared in the chat.
“I’ll pay double of whatever the players from Earth, Mars, and the Moon are offering for your cards!”
This sort of megaphone message appeared in the chat many times and attracted many players’ attention.
However, the senders of those messages didn’t include the location to find them!
Many players held on to their rare cards for now, hoping for the rich players to bid a higher price in the chat again.
However, the chat was silent now.
Nonetheless, the megaphone messages had immediately changed the peaceful situation, where no one was bidding higher prices.
The entire card market had been plunged into chaos.
This also made the lives of Lucky Dream and other rich players more miserable.
Lucky Dream could only curse in his heart as he pretended to be generous by purchasing the cards at a slightly higher price.
After all, he was the Grand Deity representative. He couldn’t bring disgrace to his team.
No matter which b*stard was trying to raise the market price, the Grand Deity team wouldn’t act like a coward.
Not to mention, the players from Moon and Mars were here too. As a member of the Grand Deity team representing Earth, Lucky Dream was determined not to disgrace the Earth players.
Now, it wasn’t a matter of collecting cards anymore.
This concerned the reputation and glory of the Grand Deity team and also the Earth players.
Clearly, most of the cards had already been found. In fact, there were many repeated Legendary NPC cards.
However, the last card, the one with William’s portrait on it, was yet to be found.
At this point in time, everyone knew that only one person could assemble all 100 cards.