158 A Popular Game (1/2)
Chapter 158: A Popular Game
Translator: _Min_Editor: Yukira_
After lunch, Ayesha returned to the gym saying she was going to clean the place. After all, she had been injected with a genetic vaccine, and thus she was almost completely recovered at the moment.
Jiang Chen was sitting on the sofa while watching TV to pass the time. Yawning, he was about to get up and go back for a nap when his mobile phone suddenly rang.
He took out his mobile phone and read: Xia Shiyu.
He pressed the answer button and lazily put the phone to his ear.
”Hello? What’s up?”
”Mhm, I have something to tell you. It’s about a game,” Xia Shiyu’s excited voice came through which made Jiang Chen extremely surprised.
”I guess it's a good news.” Jiang Chen laughed.
”That’s right,” Xia Shiyu leaned backed against the office chair with a rare proud smile appearing on her face. ”After a period of marketing and beta testing, our company’s first mobile game 'New Era' is now officially live! According to the recent daily statistics that had just been released, its first day of downloads exceeded 15-million mark, setting a record for highest downloads for mobile games!”
After practicing in front of the mirror numerous times, when Xia Shiyu finally shared the good news with the boss, her voice still went off-key due to extreme excitement.
”What the fu*k!” The news practically made Jiang Chen jumped up from the sofa.
”Ahem, no cursing please,” Xia Shiyu admonished lightly before continuing, ”According to the server's data, the highest number of concurrent users broke through 5 million…it’s better for you to come to the company this afternoon, so I can show you the back end stats directly.”
”I’ll be there right away.” After saying that, Jiang Chen hung up the phone and was immediately out the door.
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Wanghai University, men's dormitory.
A guy with a pair of glasses was staring at the screen of his mobile phone, his fingers moving swiftly on the touchscreen. His spectacles reflected the fighting scene of a roleplaying game character.
”Four eyes, what are you playing? Or are you watching porn?” Tian Zhongjie, his bunkmate, moved his chair closer and stretched his neck to take a peek at his screen.
Tian Zhongjie had just finished playing 'League of Legends' and had almost smashed his keyboards because of those noobs. He was so angry that he didn’t want to play anymore. After 20 losses, he closed the game directly, and then opened the file, and uninstalled the game.
This was his tenth time of uninstalling this game.
Most online games were either filled with RMB players (1) or filled with cheats. Although a lot of noobs played 'LOL', the quality of the game itself was still quite good. At least, the RMB skins wouldn't increase the user's attack damage. Thus, after his anger had abated, he would find himself unable to stop from downloading the game again. Despite that, every time he finished uninstalling, he would swear that he would chop his hand off if he ever installed it again.
Chen Hong cast his friend a sidelong glance before returning his gaze back to the screen and then controlled his character to the direction of the main city.
”What are you being so mysterious about?” Tian Zhongjie had just AFKed, so he had nothing better to do. He then got up and stood behind him.
Chen Hong ignored him and continued to stare intently at the screen.
Just then, the dormitory door opened and Gao Fei, who had just finished playing basketball, walked in.
”Yo, four eyes, didn’t you say that only dumbass play mobile game? Then why are you playing it?” Gao Fei quipped. He curiously stood behind Chen Long trying to see what he was playing.
”What, no way! Is this truly a mobile game?”
As a result, Gao Fei was also unable to peel his eyes off the screen either.
The texture of the image, the detailed character design, as well as the spectacular gameplay, those 3D mobile games are nothing compared to this! No, not just mobile games, even 'Skyrim' on his desktop couldn't compare to this game!
”That’s right, this is not a mobile game, and that's why I'm playing it,” Chen Hongteng pushed his eyeglasses up and scowled at the completely stunned Tian Hongjie.
Gao Fei gulped and jeered, ”The graphics is so good, the game content must be meh.”
Chen Hong glanced at him before continuing, ”Open world and 2:1 continental-scale map. It combined the adventure element of an RPG and the management element of an SLG. Player can choose to roleplay as an adventurer or become a lord managing a piece of land. You can also open a business and become a merchant to fight pirates in the sea. Whether it's the graphics or the content, even if it's compared to PC games, it's a 3A godly masterpiece” Chen Hong said with absolute certainty. Although he had always been extremely critical when it came to games, he had yet to find any flaws in 'New Era'.
”Could your crappy phone even handle a map with a size of two continents?” Tian Zhongjie's jaw was about to drop to the ground, he felt like his 'LOL' addiction was still not beyond redemption!
”The game is only 300 MB.”
”300 MB, you're pulling my leg!” Gao Fei uttered in complete disbelief.
”The company stated that they used the newest data compression technology as well as cloud computing technology...Anyway, I don't understand any of that stuff, I only can care about playing. O For a day, I consumed 10 MB of data, so it's not very high.”
Chen Hong killed another monster and deftly picked up the loot of silver coins and equipment and then locked onto the next one.