Chapter 165: Tierra Blocks (2/2)

For one, this world had its own gambling entertainments, and if the players did not find card games to be a fresh breath of air, it certainly wouldn’t be as popular as the other two games. Secondly, unlike Thunder and Tierra Blocks which could be directly played by inserting coins, the Great Revolt requires at least four players to start a session.

Besides, Players weren’t exactly idling at home the whole day and free to play games, nor could they stay too often on the Steam platform. With the total number of Players being just over two hundred at present, it was quite difficult to get four-people in a game.

Those were the exact reasons which left card games in its miserable state.

Still, Xi Wei was not too disappointed. When the number of Players increased, a social PVP game like this would become very popular.

On the other hand, one might actually presume that Xi Wei was introducing games to cripple his own Players, but that was not true: even throughout the society Xi Wei had transmigrated from, it was not hard to notice that it was a few minor students who had become addicted to games. Adults—especially those with proper jobs almost never fall to the state of gaming addicts, and would at most play a few rounds of League of Legends after work, games that had a quick rhythm.

The reason for that was simple, too: students face no pressures in life or an objective to strive for, and should their self-control be lacking they would become addicted. In contrast, adults would often work long, dizzying hours every day due to economic pressure. Would they have the time to get addicted? Even those who loved playing games at a younger age would have their gaming consoles and triple A games put in a corner gathering dust after buying them all…

Naturally, the inability for certain useless parents to properly educate their children was why there would always be people accusing video games as the root of all evil. Even so, since their pride was too strong to allow them to see that they were the very cause, they would exert every possible effort to find any excuse, and video games were certainly the best scapegoat and was often used as such targets.

On that note, one should mention that anime and digital literature were the other two elements alongside video games given the moniker of the three scapegoats in children’s education.

Meanwhile, the Players in this world were all essentially Xi Wei’s believers. Their life had barely reached sufficiency, although almost all of them understand that this didn’t come easy: the God of Games could not spread its gospel out in the open to other cities yet, and if they did not diligently improve themselves, they could face disaster on the scale of Tierra’s fall.

Couple that with daily quests and dungeon farming which basically feeds back to Players similar to a game, that was the reason they wouldn’t get too addicted, and merely keep those games as a pastime.

That’s right. Xi Wei can say for sure that his Players would never obsess themselves with gaming without regard for day or night!

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“Why can’t I get in the top thirty?! Or should I say how did those other guys survive the entire screen filled with spells?! Are the top thirty players in Thunder all monster?!”

Marni, who was feeling weirdly exhausted in spirit turned off the game for a while to head to the forums for some complaining.

He felt his vision blur, and he had already materialized beside a Lifestone in the next split second.

He gaped at the familiar sights before him, mumbling in surprise. “Did I already play for three days?! No way… I have to earn some EXP to make up for lost time… but before that, some R&R with Tierra Blocks. Steam, start!”

Xi Wei: …

Hmmm. Probably not.