Chapter 241 - Trying Out (1/2)

Finally, after all the hyping, Minecraft and Thousand Hells announced their release dates.

Both games were released on the first of August. Thousand Hells was priced at 1288 RMB, whereas Minecraft was priced at 128, a tenth of Thousand Hells.

Based on its pricing, Thousand Hells looked to be a middle of the road VR game, but in reality, its quality was below average.

Because it had a monotonous playstyle just like Diablo. There weren’t many microtransactions in the game either, meaning that most of the profits would come from selling actual copies of the game. The game was actually relatively cheap compared to other VR games when taking into account the fact that players wouldn’t have to spend a simple penny after buying the game.

Of course this didn’t mean that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a change of heart. It was just that Thousand Hells didn’t take up a lot of resources and many of the maps were reused, significantly reducing development costs.

Emperor Dynasty Entertainment also priced it lower in hopes of selling more copies.

Minecraft on the other hand…

Many were surprised at how low Minecraft was priced. It was almost a freebie charging one hundred and twenty eight RMB for a VR game.

(Normally, a VR game is ten times the price of PC games, that means Minecraft was priced equivalently as a PC game at twelve RMB.)

But in reality, Chen Mo was still highballing it.

Minecraft didn’t require much investment during its development at all. The costs in the PC version were basically negligible, and all the improvement and changes in the VR version cost around ten million RMB.

And ten million RMB wasn’t much at all for Chen Mo, the main cost of the development of Minecraft was the timesink.

Therefore Chen Mo priced it lower to sell more copies. Only when the number of players go up will Minecraft’s true potential be realised.

Chen Mo wanted Minecraft to be installed on every VR gaming pod in China.

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First of August, Minecraft and Thousand Hells was officially released!

The players who had their eyes on the games downloaded as soon as they could as they couldn’t wait to experience the games in VR.

On Lin Xue’s stream on Moyu.

The screen was still dark and a lot of discussion was happening among the viewers.

“Is Xue changing over to VR? Is she streaming a VR game today?”

“Yeah, I heard Thousand Hells was released today, she’d probably be playing the official release. Xue was Diablo’s diehard fan after all.”

“Uhh… Shouldn’t a diehard Diablo fan play Chen Mo’s new game?”

“As if, who would want to watch a building game.”

“Hmm? I think the VR gaming pod is now connected.”

The scene from the VR gaming pod was now on the stream.

VR games can be streamed in this world, requiring the signals from the gaming pod to be translated into a stream friendly signal.

For example, a first person RPG like Thousand Hells that have their players playing in first person mode with a 124° field of view, but after the conversion the signal will become a third person view (similar to a camera behind the player), and the field of view will be converted to the normal 90°.

A direct stream from a first person view would be too jittery and cause nausea in many of the viewers.

On the screen was more or less the VR version of the Desktop. There were many games displayed, with Thousand Hells in a more obvious position.

Before the chat could start celebrating, Lin Xue launched Minecraft.

The chat was shocking.

“Huh? Minecraft? Actually playing Minecraft?”