Chapter 118: Chapter 58 - Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Overview of In-Game and Out-of-Game Ecosystem

Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Overview of In-Game and Out-of-Game Ecosystem

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Three days later, Jiang Qiao was browsing the financial report and operation status of “Holy Spirit” since its launch in the Astrology Tower.

The Book of Systems presented various data from the “Holy Spirit” server in a projected format in front of Jiang Qiao.

According to the Book of Systems, the revenue brought by “Holy Spirit” to Jiang Qiao was… zero.

Zero as it was, the commercial value of “Holy Spirit” had already fully manifested with the influx of players. The price of a gold coin in “Holy Spirit” had risen to 372 yuan, which was double that of the first launch period.

The more players there were, the more the gold price increased instead of decreasing, which was within Jiang Qiao’s expectations, and what was truly expensive in “Holy Spirit” was the special equipment.

“Aren’t you going to put some equipment on this trading website?”

Hai Lan was using a small browsing tool on the Tiangong webpage to order takeaway. She used the webpage that Jiang Qiao often used, so there were some websites bookmarked by Jiang Qiao.

She was learning to surf the internet very quickly, for instance, today she discovered a game item trading website called the 4396 Game Trading Network.

This website was the largest game item and account trading platform in China. When browsing this website, Hai Lan successfully found the “Holy Spirit” section.

The “Holy Spirit” section showed that the exchange rate of “Holy Spirit” gold coin to Chinese currency was 1 to 372, and the recent increase was 90%, with a continuous upward trend likely.

This made more money than stock trading.

No matter how many times Jiang Qiao looked at it, he couldn’t help but sigh.

But what really caught Hai Lan’s eye was… the equipment trading section of the “Holy Spirit” section, the most expensive item there was called “Grona’s Piggy Bank”.

This was a special piece of equipment with no attribute bonuses, only an effect of increasing the amount of money obtained when killing bosses and elite monsters by 25%.

Special equipment had no level restrictions, but the equipment itself occupied a player’s equipment slot.

The equipment for “Holy Spirit” players included helmets, tops, belts, pants, shoes, cloaks, gloves, two rings, two trinkets, plus an additional Blessing Totem and a two-handed weapon slot.

Some Hunter and Gunslinger players also had a “Special Ammunition” equipment slot.

In total, there were fourteen equipment slots, if a player obtained a piece of special equipment that was a ring, this special equipment with no combat attribute bonus would occupy one of the ring slots.

In Jiang Qiao’s design, special equipment had some… April Fool’s Day effects, most of them had negative effects outweighing positive ones. Equipment like Grona’s Piggy Bank which could be used by all classes and had no negative effects had a high price on the “Holy Spirit” equipment trading website.

The price of Grona’s Piggy Bank on the official “Holy Spirit” website was 430,000 Chinese yuan, just this one piece of special equipment was enough for Jiang Qiao to buy a private car.

“Holy Spirit” prevented the possibility of operatives using multiple accounts or bots to farm gold coins, so the gold price of “Holy Spirit” could potentially keep increasing. The Piggy Bank was a trinket slot equipment, if a rich player bought two Piggy Banks to wear, they could produce 50% more gold coins when diving into instances, and it wouldn’t take long to earn it back.

“I still have about ten more! There’s also the Fire Elf’s Wrath, Light Elf’s Memory, Water Elf’s Mercy, and so on,” Hai Lan said, a whole pile of Grona’s Piggy Banks appearing in her hands, with three glowing Light Elf’s Memories floating above her head, three small fireballs dropped beside her, and a cluster of liquid drops gathered at her feet.

The Elemental Elf series was also high-priced equipment, and it belonged to the non-slot occupying “Blessing Totem” type. Its effect was to grant a certain probability of double casting for skills below level 35 of the corresponding attribute.

The stable price on the 4396 Game Trading Network was upwards of 300,000 yuan.

“You really came up with the idea of the game’s official selling equipment, huh.”

Jiang Qiao closed the Book of Systems and slammed it directly on Hai Lan’s head, causing all the Piggy Banks she was holding to scatter all over the floor.

“Is it not allowed?” Hai Lan rubbed her forehead, this was the second time she had been scolded by Jiang Qiao for coming up with a bad idea.

“If you want to go out of business, then sure. The reason special equipment is so expensive is because there’s no way to currently output it.”

Jiang Qiao knew that the special equipment currently listed on the 4396 Game Trading Network all came from the first Abyss Hunt. Currently, there was no way to obtain special equipment from the main map of “Holy Spirit”.

As for epic equipment… players could obtain it from every hero-level instance, and although the difficulty was high, at least there was an output. A player could find a good team and grind a month or so to get a full set of epic equipment, it wasn’t that difficult.

“Nobody would probably know, right?” Hai Lan really had no common sense on this aspect.

“You can’t spend that much on a takeaway meal! ‘Holy Spirit’ will be profitable in the future, but right now the important thing is to expand the number of server users and increase the average level of players.”

Jiang Qiao had a very indifferent view about money. He wasn’t without desires, when it was time to make money he would, but when it wasn’t, he could easily control his desires. The bad idea Hai Lan proposed was the kind of money Jiang Qiao thought should not be made.

“Okay.” Hai Lan obediently ordered her takeaway.

She was very obedient in this regard, which made Jiang Qiao feel more and more like he wasn’t raising a goddess but rather a pet.

After analyzing the trends in the financial system within “Holy Spirit”, Jiang Qiao continued to open the Book of Systems to focus on the growth progress of the server itself.

Jiang Qiao’s conspiracy… hmm… new plan was very successful. The first was the newly released main story quest by the Doll Girl, which made a large number of “Holy Spirit” players, including Zhao Mingwei, rush to level up like crazy.

Secondly, the newly launched MVP replay feature of “Holy Spirit” made many guilds start competing fiercely for instance clear records. The frequency of guilds teaming up to run the Tower of Trial was several times higher than before.

Jiang Qiao felt that the guild leaders were starting to get serious. They not only started researching in-game, but seemed to be pulling in outside help as well.

Over these three days, both Zhao Mingwei and Jiang Qiao spent their time responding to instance record invitations from various guilds, with Zhao Mingwei being the main player and Jiang Qiao as an accessory.

As a result, the server’s growth rate doubled in those three days. Previously, the player limit on the server could steadily increase by 300 people per day, but over these three days it reached a steady growth of 700 players per day.

The “Holy Spirit” player count finally surpassed the 5,000 mark, reaching 6,700 players.

Hai Lan wanted to order a cake to celebrate, but Jiang Qiao knew that this number of players was nothing compared to national level online games with daily active users in the millions. The 6,700 registered players were really nothing.

This 6,700 player limit was the result of the first and second batch of “Holy Spirit” players grinding monsters in the Tower of Trial.

“Next is the growth of Creation Energy?” Jiang Qiao looked at the most basic Creation Energy, which had increased from 14,000 to 19,000 over these past few days, with an increase of three to four points every seven or eight minutes, occasionally jumping to five or sixty points.

All Creation Energy came from the monsters killed by players in the Tower of Trial, and the energy obtained from players dismantling relics.

“Hmm? Has the Wealth Child Segman come again?”

Jiang Qiao saw the rate of increase in Creation Energy suddenly jump by +700, realizing immediately that his big money-maker had returned.