Chapter 76: Getting Naughty in the Virtual World?
Translator: 549690339
“Mavis, how about we expand the Cloud Dream site?”
Mavis looked at Lincoln with some confusion, “Expand what?”
“Nowadays, company websites are basically single game purchasing channels, and players mostly talk about their gaming experience in the buyer’s comment section. After we added the rating and review function, we can clearly see that the players’ enthusiasm for participating in discussions has increased a lot, right?”
“Oh! Master is so amazing!” Mavis admired Lincoln, and her eyes sparkled with stars.
This was her habit of adding special effects to herself. Since the computing power was abundant, Lincoln had completely let her do whatever she liked. “Ahem!” Lincoln blushed a little. It wasn’t that he was amazing, but the gaming development time in this world was too short, and he had too many successful samples to learn from.
“We can continue to expand the functions, letting players not only purchase consoles and games here, but also find friends who play the same games, gather spontaneously, discuss games, and share experiences, etc. By that time, Cloud Dream will not only be a mall but also a community, better enhancing players’ loyalty and cohesion.”
“But the only game we sell now is ‘Traveler of the Wind’, right?”
“We’re going to make a lot of games! Let’s start early and be prepared, right?”
“Okay! Although Mavis doesn’t quite understand, Mavis will listen to Master!” Mavis obediently nodded and began to design the new website with Lincoln.
Lincoln’s goal was, of course, not just a simple website revision.
Once the design was completed, the players got used to it, and more and more Cloud Dream games were released, it would no longer be the Cloud Dream website but the Cloud Dream gaming platform.
Lincoln and Mavis leisurely began designing the new website on the small sofa in the Spaceship.
Randall and Fred, with the new employees, were smoothing out the storyline in the world of “Assassins’ Alliance,” and began to assign work, prepare materials for the levels, and add them to the scene framework provided by Lincoln.
Also, someone was already replicating the amusement facilities from reality on the empty ground in the amusement park.
Time went by slowly as a day passed.
Before leaving work, Lincoln also joined the employees’ discussion and finalized some changes to the plot.
The opening scene, where Mr. X jumps off a building and randomly shoots in mid-air before being killed by Cross from a long distance, would be turned into the opening animation. This would then allow players to see this important prologue and then enter the plot.
To cater to the different gaming experiences of male and female players, they decided to weaken the originally faint relationship between Wesley and Firefox.
Lincoln originally thought about designing a male version of Firefox to cater to the gaming preferences of female players.
However, after being reminded by a female staff member, he realized that it wouldn’t work well.
The fantasies of female players about love were very different from those of male players, and making such a change would increase the workload significantly without achieving the desired effect.
It’s better to also use an impressive female assassin as a guide, after all, who doesn’t want to get close to a strong and charming older sister character?
So the matter was settled, with male players getting subtle romantic hints, while female players would have slight adjustments in dialogue and actions to express more friendship.
This would also prevent some players from breaking down emotionally during their first clearance of the game when they see the beautiful assassin, who has been guiding them, die, and angrily give the game a bad review.
Next, they would increase the intensity of the confrontations in the main storyline.
For example, during the first battle between Firefox and Cross at the convenience store, both sides need to add more people to the fight and cover more locations like streets, car chases, collisions, and rushing out to the bridge.
The same goes for the protagonist’s assassination missions, with the number of missions being significantly increased. This would rely on Randall leading experienced employees to formulate tasks and scenarios.
In order to enrich the scenes of the tasks and increase the players’ desire to explore the game world after completing the game, more interesting scenes needed to be designed.
only amusement parKs, DUI also parKs, sculptures, wrests, restaurants, shopping malls, bars, casinos, and so on.
One male employee seriously suggested an idea: “Should we create a hidden strip club in the city as an Easter egg?”
Lincoln rejected the idea, saying that it could be done, but there was no need at the moment.
This reminded Lincoln of something – completely disabling 18+ functions in
“Assassins’ Alliance.”
Even if the game started with a player waking up with their girlfriend in bed, it would not allow players to have daring thoughts!
Yes, the virtual reality technology developed by Lincoln had no difficulty in implementing 18+ functions and could simulate it 100% accurately.
The only problem was that this was a legally gray area.
Although virtual reality is based on virtual nerve signals, the specific experience is almost indistinguishable from consciousness immersion, and it is technically OK to do naughty things in the virtual world.
However, whether it is legally problematic is a very ambiguous field.
After all, before Lincoln, no such technology existed in the world, nor were there laws prohibiting explicit content in virtual worlds.
Especially in the gaming industry, where explicit games are not uncommon and even a significant category.
In this world, where the development of gaming has only been a short decade, only gunfight games thrive, and there is little room for other types of games. Explicit games have remained unaffected and continue to develop vigorously.
Though not mainstream, the sales are quite real!
There have always been quite a few studios in this world that made fortunes by making explicit games.
Daxia, for example, has relatively strict controls but only in classification and sales. It does not ban the sale of such games but strictly forbids selling them to players under 18 years old.
Once found selling restricted games to underage players, heavy fines will apply.
According to this rule, Lincoln could add something like a strip club to the world of “Assassins’ Alliance” with a higher rating.
But seriously, with the level of realism in virtual reality, by the time you start picking up guns and killing people indiscriminately, any slightly weak content regulation would result in an 18+ rating.
The impact of a strip club on the game’s rating would be like a drop in the ocean.
But at too high a level of realism, the appearance of a strip club might remind players of one thing – can they do naughty things in a virtual world?
Once they realize this, and the game does not have strict restrictions,
Pandora’s Box will be opened, and extremely bad situations may occur.
News in real life occasionally reports the loss of innocence of a sheep in South Asia.
If they don’t restrict 18+ content, the innocence of NPCs in the game would definitely be in danger.
Just think about “MOD Scroll”!
Neural signal hints can only be used at certain critical moments, and they are not strong enough or continuous enough to control a player’s thoughts and prevent them from thinking about explicit content.
So, it’s safer to just ban it directly.
Of course, the breakthrough development of cutting-edge technology often means the evolution of ethics and concepts. Lincoln will not always ban explicit content in the virtual world.
After all, in the future, couples might want to have some fun, or long-distance lovers might want to meet in the virtual world and do something to strengthen their feelings – these are reasonable demands.
As virtual reality technology becomes more popular and developed, these
demands will inevitably arise.
However, this requires more caution, taking it step by step, without directly challenging the established concepts of the public.
Otherwise, if directly banned by the moral police, it would be terrible.
For some reason, once Lincoln made the temporary ban decision, he suddenly thought of the anchor in the live broadcast room who shouted, “Why can’t I take off my pants?”
Unfortunately, he still couldn’t take off his pants this time..