Game Designer’s downloadable content announcement:
First, new game functions have been added: Message board. Gamers can leave messages on the floor, door, wall, and other places at each stage. Messages will be generated using fixed vocabulary to enhance the player’s interaction experience.
Second, there was a new gameplay: contrarians mode. Players would obtain a little bickering assistant to carry the bickering and allow the voice-overs to choose the routes. Players would then be able to ridicule the voice-overs through the little assistant.
Third, new gameplay: New player care mode. Old players who have completed the game can enter the new player’s game through a random matching system, guiding the new player’s choices by freestyle chat.
The art materials for these two games did not change much. They only added some more interesting online gameplay.
What’s more, Wang Xiaobin had purposely buried the Easter egg for Ocean Stronghold’s downloadable content and the new game, Mission and Choice, in both games to generate heat for the games.
In fact, at the beginning, Wang Xiaobin had no idea what the downloadable content of these games should be like. He only wanted to try his best to complete normal gameplay tasks.
However, Huang Sibo found him and asked him to cooperate with Mission and Choice and add a pre-planned plot of Mission and Choice in Ocean Stronghold’s downloadable content to promote it.
Wang Xiaobin agreed readily.
Initially, he had no idea what to do. However, Huang Sibo had given him the ready-made game plot. How could he not do it?
After planning the content of Ocean Stronghold’s downloadable content, Wang Xiaobin thought about it. Since that was the case, he decided to add all the downloadable content of the old games to the new ones.
He had updated the game’s content and given the veteran gamers something to do. At the same time, he had also helped to generate heat for the games. He could increase the sales volume of Ocean Stronghold’s downloadable content and Mission and Choice. Seriously, why not?
That was how The Lonely Desert Road and Game Designer were updated.
Wang Xiaobin checked it once, and then arranged for a timely update announcement.
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December 1st, Thursday…
Qiao Liang had been living in Jingzhou for a month and a half ever since he moved there in the middle of October.
During the time, he had completely adapted to his life in Jingzhou. His daily life had also changed.
First of all, his working hours had become more regular. He had also chosen healthier food. His dark eye circles and slight plumpness had also improved significantly.
Fish-Catching Take-Out had recently launched a ‘Monthly Package Set Meal’. It was targeted at people who take-out frequently like Qiao Liang and the working class.
Buying the ‘Monthly Package Set Meal’ would first allow the user to choose their take-out time in advance. For example, working adults could choose their lunch from Monday to Friday based on the situation. Those who worked overtime could choose their lunch and night from Monday to Saturday. Secondly, they could choose their favorite flavors and dishes in advance.
After purchasing the set meal, he could deposit the money into his personal account and choose to deduct the fees automatically. He would be able to buy one meal on credit at most. If he had already bought one meal on credit, customers would have to pay for the last meal within two hours before the next meal. Otherwise, the order would be canceled.
When it was time to deliver food, Fish-Catching Take-Out would automatically deduct the fees and deliver food. They would also arrange the dishes according to the customers’ pre-prepared taste and recent meal records to ensure that they had different flavors and were nutritious.
If they had to cancel the delivery at the last minute, customers only needed to cancel the delivery on the ‘delivery calendar’ on the application.
To a geek like Qiao Liang and a few other office workers, this monthly package was a blessing.
Ordering take-out was a form of torture in most cases with only a few blessings.
Qiao Liang often had this experience. Sometimes, he would be so busy that he would forget to order take-out. When he was done, he would look up and see that it was already 1 PM. At other times, he would pick up his cell phone and order take-out at 11 PM. He would search through more than ten shops but could not find anything that he particularly wanted to eat. He would waste fifteen minutes just to order take-out, and he would not find anything that he was particularly satisfied with. At other times, he would accidentally order take-out during peak hours. In the end, he would wait for more than an hour before the delivery man arrived because of the explosive amount of orders. The food would be cold by then.
At the moment, the domestic food delivery industry was still growing in a barbaric manner. Thus, there would often be unpleasant dining experiences.
On the other hand, Fish-Catching Take-Out’s “Monthly Package Set Meal” would allow those who had been eating take-out for a long time to not have to worry about what to eat every day. The random food that was delivered to them made them feel as if someone was taking care of their meals. On the other hand, it could also ensure the delivery time and experience.
That was because this ‘Monthly Package Set Meal’ was like another form of pre-order because Fish-Catching Take-Out’s stores had already predicted the number of orders in advance. It could ensure the cooking and delivery time of most meals. Thus, its taste and dining experience would also improve.
Qiao Liang had set the ‘Monthly Package Set Meal’ for lunch and dinner from Monday to Friday every week.
At the moment, his life was to walk around the area after waking up every morning. He would go to the nearby buns shop for breakfast and walk around. When he returned, he would cut videos or play games. Lunch would be delivered to his doorstep.
On Saturdays and Sundays, he would sometimes go out to play with his fans or friends. Sometimes, he would order other take-out at home, such as fried chicken, milk tea, roasted duck, and the like to change the type of food he was eating.
Qiao Liang was eating Fish-Catching Take-Out as usual while reading the latest news at noon that day.
Many things have happened in the past month. What Qiao Liang was most concerned about was the GPL league that would be held in Jingzhou.
He had even specially gone to that familiar place in Ming Yun Villas to get to know the various E-Sports Clubs and livestream it to his fans.
Recently, all the live-stream platforms had been on the rise, and they were spending more and more money. As a UP Master with his own fans, Qiao Liang naturally would not miss this opportunity.
However, there was still a huge difference between being a UP Master and a broadcaster. Most of Qiao Liang’s live-stream audience were his hardcore fans and were not explosively popular.
However, to Qiao Liang, he could earn some money from his live-streams while he was doing sponsored partnerships. That was already a very good life for him.
“Hmm?” What was this?”
“The update announcement for The Lonely Desert Road and Game Designer?”
“These two games are still being updated???”
Qiao Liang saw the discussion in his fan group and thought that everyone was joking.
That can’t be, right? The game is so old and it’s still being updated?
Couldn’t they just let them rest in peace?
Qiao Liang could not help but sigh. Out of all the games companies he had seen, Tengda was definitely the most unique.
They obviously had a dominating online game like GOG in their hands. The new game was still being developed. The priority of developing these games would definitely be much higher than updating old games, right?
Yet, Boss Pei insisted on sending people to protect these old games that were no longer popular and few people played. That was ridiculous!
Was he really not going to give t
hem up?
Chapter 764 - Easter Egg: Traveler Bao Xu’s Gift
The old gamers of Tengda were really fortunate. Other games companies were basically indifferent to the old gamers. The old games would not be updated at all. They were just waiting to die of old age.
On the other hand, Tengda would not give up no matter how old the game was. As long as old players persevered, they would be able to get new content!
It was ridiculous.
Qiao Liang could not help but feel curious as he sighed. There were Easter eggs in the update announcements of the two games.
“Not bad. I don’t have much to do recently. I can play in the afternoon and see what new content the downloadable content of these games are.”
Qiao Liang packed the cutlery of Fish-Catching Take-Out and placed it at the door for the delivery men to collect them. Then, he turned on his computer to purchase the downloadable content of the two games, preparing to play them in the afternoon.
“The downloadable content for The Lonely Desert Road is five times more expensive than the original? Amazing.”
Qiao Liang immediately purchased the downloadable content for both games and began to download the downloadable content.
First, he looked at the downloadable content for The Lonely Desert Road, which was priced at five yuan.
The main content of this update should be connected to the internet and various random scenarios. There would be more art resources and gameplay content than the original game itself. Thus, the downloadable content had increased.
He could play ‘The Lonely Desert Team’ with his friends in the online game mode. However, Qiao Liang was not optimistic about this gameplay because he really did not want to drive for another eight hours. What’s more, he did not think that he would be able to find a friend who would be willing to drive with him for eight hours.
However, the official platform must have taken this into consideration as well. That was why they added some other changes: they could randomly match the netizens to solve the problem of no one driving together; they could use voice chat to solve the boring problem of driving on the road; they could wait for the netizens to rescue the car from its anchors; they could solve the problem of starting over once they failed and making the players feel frustrated.
“This change is actually not bad.” Qiao Liang nodded slightly, expressing his approval of the official change.
On the surface, these changes seemed to go against the original intention of The Lonely Desert Road. After all, this game was meant to torture gamers. One of the important reasons why it became popular was that there could not be a single mistake in eight hours of driving. Otherwise, they would have to start all over again. This stimulated gamers’ masochism and curiosity.
If not for the harsh conditions, this simple game would not have stood out and become popular because of Qiao Liang’s video.
However, it was no longer necessary to maintain such difficulty.
That was because The Lonely Desert Road had become an antique game. Players who were willing to buy it had already bought it. It was no longer possible to expect new players to be tortured and fall into the pit.
Since that was the case, he might as well change the harsh gameplay and find other entertainment for the old players.
The new gamers could choose not to switch to the internet mode if they wanted to be tortured. It was still as difficult as before. If they felt that they could not persevere, they could switch to the internet mode with other gamers. They would be able to get a ride even if they were to break down. That would be much friendlier.
Qiao Liang was very reluctant to play it one more time but he still pulled a few people from his fan group and opened The Lonely Desert Road’s internet mode.
That was because he wanted to see the so-called Traveler Bao Xu’s Easter egg.
Surprisingly, he could really find people in the fan group who were willing to drive with him. Soon, the team was full. There were eight people in total. Each of them chose different car skins to form a motorcade. They formed a long line on the lonely desert road. One moment, they formed an S shape and the next moment… Sorry, they did not do that because there was only one road.
They followed the established road as he joked around.
However, the more he drove, the fewer cars there were.
That was because once they lost focus, the car would fall into the desert and break down. They could only take the latter car and “revive” an hour later. At first, there were eight cars, then there were seven, and then six…
Some people made mistakes while driving because they were not focused, while others simply drove into the desert because they were too lazy to drive, waiting to take someone else’s car.
Of course, different cars could bring different passengers. In the most extreme case, there might be no space for the motorcade. Then, they could only wait for the cars behind them to pass by before they could get a ride.
Everyone was talking and laughing. Suddenly, they felt that the game was not that torturous anymore.
After driving for a while, the “mirage” of the downloadable content appeared.
Both sides were still deserts, but different scenery could be seen in the desert. There were European cities, desert pyramids, oases, tropical rainforests, etc…
Qiao Liang now knew why it cost five yuan, it was to make these scenes.
After driving for a while more, a tanned man carrying a travel bag appeared on the road. He was standing by the side of the road, and there was a broken down car beside him, which meant that he was not a player.
Qiao Liang’s eyes lit up. “That should be Traveler Bao Xu. Quick, pick him up. There should be an Easter egg!”
After ‘Bao Xu’ got into the car, he exchanged a few pleasantries with everyone and expressed his gratitude to them for allowing him to hitch a ride.
After that, every time he saw a new mirage, Bao Xu would say a few lines. His tone was filled with vicissitudes.
“This is Honduras. I once came here on a ship and encountered a storm and huge waves. My ship seemed to be about to be thrown into the sky and into the abyss. No wonder Columbus called this place ‘the bottomless abyss’. It made a deep impression on me…”
“This is Namibia. On one side is a vast desert, and on the other is a vast sea. In front of it is a cave landscape that has been eroded by sandstorms and is as bumpy as the surface of the moon…”
“This is Dominican…”
Every time they passed by a mirage, ‘Bao Xu’ would sigh and reminisce about his thrilling and memorable journey in this place.
Qiao Liang could not help but feel emotional. “Not bad. he can even be a tour guide in this game.”
Traveler Bao Xu had always been a hero in GOG. Many players knew about this employee’s travel story, but they did not know the details behind it.
Qiao Liang naturally knew about it as Boss Pei’s best friend.
In fact, Bao Xu had only been to a portion of these places. There were too many scenic spots in this world after all. When Wang Xiaobin was creating the downloadable content, he had only decided on these scenic spots based on the resources available online.
Obviously, the creator treated Traveller Bao Xu as a meme. In the setting, he was a mysterious adventurer who had traveled to every corner of the world.
Of course, everyone felt that Bao Xu had this potential. He was still so young after all. If he were to travel for a month every six months on average, it would only be a matter of time before he traveled to all the famous places in the world.
After driving for about two hours, Bao Xu said, “Alright, I’ll get off now. Thank you for letting me ride. I’ve prepared a gift for you. I hope we’ll meet again if fate allows it.”
Qiao Liang: “Oh? This should be the Easter egg!”
The system notification showed that he had obtained a new car skin and unlocked a new scene. Qiao Liang quickly exited the game to check.
Qiao Liang realized that
he had obtained the skin of a new car. It was a mini spacecraft with a sci-fi feel to it. It was about the size of a sports car, but it had a pair of mini spacecraft wings. It had no wheels and was floating in the air.
Qiao Liang opened the scene page again. There were various scenes that players had activated in the game.
One of the new scenes was on the surface of a dark red planet filled with sand. All sorts of large and small craters could be seen around it. It looked like an outer space scene from a sci-fi movie.
There seemed to be some huge caves in the distance. The caves were pitch black, as if some terrifying creatures were stirring within.
“Eh, this is the Easter egg buried in the game? Does this mean that Boss Pei’s next game is a science fiction genre?”
“This spacecraft and setting seem to be quite fitting for The Lonely Desert Road.”
Qiao Liang carefully observed the spacecraft and the new setting and realized that there seemed to be no other information in it. It seemed to be a message that Tengda’s next new game should be a sci-fi theme.
However, it was unclear what type of game it was exactly.
“Alright, alright. Now that I have the skins and scenes, I can go and see Game Designer’s downloadable content.”
Everyone scattered at Qiao Liang’s command.
“Boss Pei is so crafty. He knows that The Lonely Desert Road sells for cheap and that there are many old gamers, so he purposely lowered the difficulty of the game. He even added cool new cars and new scenes. Players who are slightly more interested would spend five yuan to match the netizens to play, look at the new scene, and promote the new game…”
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