Chapter 238 - Lukewarm (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Many videogame media released their articles for Minecraft following the conference.

Chen Mo’s newest game: Minecraft

Chen Mo’s first VR game exposed

Minecraft: Pixel art building game

Minecraft and Thousand Hells released at the same time

Chen Mo: nothing but praises for Thousand Hells during his conference

These articles went over the details that were shown during the conference, including the playstyle, as well as some gameplay footage.

Soon, the news was spread among the players. There were various different reactions, but most of them had some element of shock.

Chen Mo’s first VR game is a building game?

But most of them could tell what the point of the game was just by looking slightly deeper into the articles.

From the looks of it, it was a game based around creating. Just like Don’t Starve, it featured an open world and more complex online modes.

But even Don’t Starve players had some doubts about the game.

Don’t Starve was popular because it was a smaller game that could be played on both PC and mobile. Moreover, it was priced at a competitive twenty RMB.

However, Minecraft is a VR game. VR games are usually quite expensive, Earth Online for example was priced at three hundred and ninety nine USD, and VR games of similar calibre would cost around one to two thousand RMB in China.

Some Chinese MMORPGs were relatively cheaper, some even around five hundred RMB. But those games usually had microtransactions such as it was incredibly difficult to break even just by selling copies of the games.

Although most of the VR player base was in a higher income bracket, but wanting them to spend one thousand RMB for a building game?

Nobody would spend that kind of money even if they had plenty right?

There was a lot of discussion on the forums too.

“What’s Chen moi thinking? How could he make a building game as his most crucial game when entering the VR market? Honestly, I haven’t seen a VR puzzle game make big money.”

“From what Chen Mo said, the game isn’t just a simple puzzle game, it’s still a sandbox game similar to Don’t Starve.”

“But the main fun of the game is creating! Moreover, how many copies can he sell as VR games are priced so high. Is he able to break even?”

“I think breaking even isn’t a problem. The game has pixel graphics, and a lot of the game is built by players. Many of the resources can be reused too. How high could the development cost really be?”

“It probably wouldn’t cost much to develop the mobile or PC version, but porting it to VR would still cost a pretty penny. And you’ve seen the real gameplay videos, the graphics are really detailed. Chen Mo probably didn’t skimp on spending money, it wouldn’t look as good otherwise.”

“I think it’s in the millions, but it can’t be over twenty million. That’s peanuts for CHen Mo.”