53 Poor Players (1/2)

Schuck did make some sense, but Roland did not entirely agree with him. He felt that he was only making progress faster than other people because of the special hidden talent that he got by luck.

If the special talent was randomly distributed when the character was created, Mage players certainly wouldn't abandon the opportunity. Chances were that many Mages would delete their characters and create them again and again tonight.

After he returned from the cold drink bar, Roland opened the forum again, only to discover that ”special talent” had already become a trending topic.

Many players stated that they would create and recreate characters tonight to get a hidden talent.

Of course, someone asked if their hard work in the past two months would be for nothing if they deleted their characters.

The players who intended to delete their characters declared that, since the game was still in alpha test phase, they would rather try different possibilities.

Roland couldn't help but frown. He felt that things might be more complicated than that.

Firstly, it was barely possible to create billions of AIs, but the game had achieved it. The AIs were already out there in the game.

Secondly, Roland felt that it was rather ”generous” that half a million players were invited for the alpha test.

Any multiplayer game with half a million people online simultaneously would be considered a popular game.

World of Falan, on the other hand, could be played at night during sleep and did not contradict work schedules, so most people were highly active.

Even though not all the players were online, more than eighty percent of them played it every day.

An alpha test that involved forty thousand people seemed too huge.

Therefore, Roland estimated that it was just a promotion tactic. For example, the company might be short of funding, so it decided to collect more funding with the so-called alpha test.

Fifty hundred thousand virtual cabins, fifty thousand bucks for each. If they were sold out, the company could gather twenty-five billion.

The money would be enough to support research for a while.

Roland felt that the so-called alpha test was the actual beta test.

He was of a mind to remind those who intended to delete their characters, but he thought for a while and decided to drop it.

Those people might not listen to him at all. Many players would love to spend lots of money on their game character, like Li Lin.

Besides, what they were hoping to get was a hidden talent.

Roland rested for a while and practiced in the boxing club for two hours. Then, he had supper and read the news, waiting for the game to restart.

He was not in a hurry to find Betta after he entered the game. Instead, he stayed in the Magic Tower and familiarized himself with mental power.

”Come in,” said Roland.

The wooden door opened. It was Vivian, who was still rather shy. She glanced at Roland and said, ”Deputy chairman, a Golden Son wants to meet you. He said he made an appointment.”

He's rather fast!

Slightly surprised, Roland said to Vivian. ”All right, got it. Thank you.”

”You're most welcome,” replied Vivian with a weak voice.

Roland was not bothered. He walked down the Magic Tower and found a bearded, mature-looking ”young man” in ragged clothes at the gate of the Magic Tower.