Chapter 241 - Trying Out
Finally, after all the hyping, Minecraft and Thousand Hells announced their release dates.
Both games were released on the first of August. Thousand Hells was priced at 1288 RMB, whereas Minecraft was priced at 128, a tenth of Thousand Hells.
Based on its pricing, Thousand Hells looked to be a middle of the road VR game, but in reality, its quality was below average.
Because it had a monotonous playstyle just like Diablo. There weren’t many microtransactions in the game either, meaning that most of the profits would come from selling actual copies of the game. The game was actually relatively cheap compared to other VR games when taking into account the fact that players wouldn’t have to spend a simple penny after buying the game.
Of course this didn’t mean that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a change of heart. It was just that Thousand Hells didn’t take up a lot of resources and many of the maps were reused, significantly reducing development costs.
Emperor Dynasty Entertainment also priced it lower in hopes of selling more copies.
Minecraft on the other hand…
Many were surprised at how low Minecraft was priced. It was almost a freebie charging one hundred and twenty eight RMB for a VR game.
Lin Xue walked around before looking downwards and realising she was a toy person in game.
The third person perspective of the audience could see that even clearer. Lin Xue looked like a toy from the Frozen Leggo set. Quite cute, 3:1 ratio of body :head, blonde with a white dress and stockings. She had a really cute walking animation too.
The game would collect data of the player from the gaming pod once the player starts the game to decide the gender of the character the player played as.
A cute dog with a sign in its mouth walked in front of Lin Xue.
“We’ve picked a random character based on your gender provided from the gaming pod, would you like to customise?”
Lin Xue clicked ‘yes’ with no histation.
She would’ve been fine if there was no way of customising, but why wouldn’t she customise if she could?
Lin Xue’s perspective changed from first to third person as if her soul jumped out of her body.
At the same time, two UIs popped up allowing Lin Xue to customize her looks.
“There seems to be quite a lot of options.”
Lin Mo looked through the menus. She found that although this game looked simple, everything was quite well developed. Take this customisation menu for example, she could change her face, hat, top, pants, and shoes. She could even change her height within a certain range.
Lin Xue finally settled with something she was happy with after half an hour.
“Hmm… Which should we start with?”
“Let’s try the game out in single player first, it’d be terrible if we dragged others down in multiplayer,” said Lin Xue after a few moments.