Chapter 252 - Minecraft Big Data (1/2)

It was all celebrations in the office.

The atmosphere was slightly depressing when the statistics for the first day was released. Although the sold quite a few copies and was considered a great success, it wasn’t explosively popular as they were completely outclassed by Thousand Hells which happened to be outside of their expectation.

But what happened later was also completely outside of their expectation and completely surprised them.

From the first week to the first month, Minecraft’s sales and revenue kept going up as it gained more and more popularity on various video streaming, live streaming, and video game forums. At the end of the first month, Thousand Hells was almost completely defeated by Minecraft.

This also wiped out the somewhat depressed atmosphere of the entire studio!

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Qian Kun was putting a lot of effort into building houses in Minecraft on PC.

He had a blueprint on hand and carefully placed down each and every block according to the blueprint.

Su Jinyu was behind him, “You sure are patient.”

Qian Kun said while having his full concentration on building, “It’s alright. After realising the fun in building, I’m completely addicted to the game. Time goes by in a blink of an eye when you’re having fun.”

Zheng Hongxi said, “I think compared to patience, the bigger challenge is the pressure from the manager.”

Su Jinyu couldn’t help but laugh, “Yeah, Qian Kun. You spent days building this building whereas the manager would probably spend ten minutes on this.”

“Can you guys stop attacking me like this?” pleaded Qian Kun, “The manager… He’s not normal. There’s no competition between me and him in any game.”

Su Jinyu nodded, “Fair point… Anyways, where’s the manager?”

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Chen Mo was making a video on the second floor of the experience store.

This was a special video, not a building video like the Forbidden City or Old Summer Palace.

The building videos were stunning at the start, but as the players’ building prowess are continually being challenged, more and more professional groups appeared, and with that more and more incredible builds.

Players slowly getting used to these types of insane builds after seeing them again and again in “Somebody else’s world”.

And the video Chen Mo was making one was something that would allow others to feel the charms of Minecraft even better than building videos.

Chen Mo did all the recording, editing, and post-production all by himself as it wasn’t anything difficult and it was something most video makers could do, and was of course even simpler for Chen Mo.

The video making process wasn’t difficult, the difficult part was collecting data capturing the correct point of views in game, something only Chen Mo could do.

After looking through it one last time, Chen Mo felt that it was good enough and uploaded it onto the internet via Weibo.

Chen Mo’s Webio was now the best place for players to get news about new games. Many of them would check Chen Mo’s Webio everyday when they have nothing to do to see if Chen Mo had posted anything.

The post attracted many reposts once it was released.

“Minecraft Big Data! Take a look at what these players built!”

The players were all confused, Big Data?

Big Data was a high level term commonly used in the IT industry, referring to the cleaning and summarising of a large amount of data to gain some insight.

Of course, this term is sometimes misused to describe some shocking statistics.

But normally, the video game industry rarely touched the term Big Data. Although there are various sources of data in video games, the designers usually kept it for their own eyes and would rarely release them.