1416 The Door to a New World
In this day and age, university students had become one of the major consumers of society, especially in the entertainment industry.
Be it chasing celebrities or a standard of living, entertainment had always been the place where young people were most willing to spend money.
Around the university, there was no lack of entertainment venues.
KTV, billiards hall, gaming city, and Internet cafes…
!!There was a lively food street behind Capital University. After walking out of the South Gate and crossing the road, one could see it less than a hundred meters on foot.
At the entrance of the food street was an Internet cafe that had just opened.
Yu Dong was a local in the capital. He had already figured out the surrounding environment of the university in advance during the winter break.
“There are a few stalls in this food street that taste good. If you’re hungry later, I’ll treat you to some.”
At the end of the street, Yu Dong pointed at the lively crowd in the food street and said to Jian Ai.
Jian Ai smiled and nodded. “I didn’t know there was such a place at the South Gate of the school.”
The two of them entered the Internet cafe called ‘The Sun’ at the end of the street one after another. As soon as they entered, Jian Ai choked and coughed.
Although it was a newly opened Internet cafe, the air inside was not good. It was foul and there was a heavy smoke smell.
Seeing this, Yu Dong quickly said, “The environment was quite good when I came over for the winter break. I think more people have come here since school started. Internet cafes allow smoking.”
“I’m fine!” Jian Ai waved her hand to show that she was fine. “It’s just my first time here, so I’m not mentally prepared.”
“Why don’t we change to another one? There’s another one inside!” Yu Dong suggested.
Jian Ai quickly refused. “Let’s go with this. The other place is probably the same. After all, they’re all nearby.”
Yu Dong nodded. “Wait for me. I’ll turn on two machines.”
At this time, surfing the Internet was not done under a real name. There was no need to bring an ident.i.ty card.
Jian Ai took advantage of the time when Yu Dong went to turn on the machines and observed the Internet cafe.
Most of the people here were students from Capital University, both boys and girls. Jian Ai mainly observed the games everyone was playing.
She realized that be it boys or girls, the games everyone played overlapped very much. Eighty to ninety percent of the boys and girls played the same game.
This was how online games were. The premise for the development of a popular game was to capture the core players. Once the game was released, it would spread quickly among the target group like a plague and achieve the goal of monopolizing players.
Just like the game, these girls were playing, it was a game called Super Dance Troupe. The game content was also very simple. As long as they hit the designated b.u.t.tons on the keyboard, the characters in the game would dance to the music.
However, could they win the hearts of these university girls just because of this game rule?
Jian Ai naturally didn’t believe it!
That was why she came to the Internet cafe to experience it herself. She had never played online games and did not know their charm, let alone why someone would spend money to play a game. It could be as little as a few hundred yuan or as much as tens of thousands of yuan. Some even many people topped up millions of yuan for a game!
“What are you looking at? I thought you ran away!”
Yu Dong suddenly appeared behind Jian Ai with two bottles of drinks. Jian Ai smiled in embarra.s.sment. “I’m curious. I was just looking around!”
The machines the two of them were using were on the second floor. After turning them on, Yu Dong looked at Jian Ai and said, “Which one do you want to play? I’ll teach you!”
“You know that dance game too?”
Yu Dong pursed his lips. “I’m a G.o.d who can play at 198 bpm. Don’t underestimate me!”
198 bpm?
Jian Ai didn’t understand Yu Dong’s words and only said, “I thought only girls played this game!”
“This is the most popular game now. It’s for both males and females!” Yu Dong quickly said, “Why do you think so many girls play this game? Of course, it’s because there are too many boys!”
“Of course, boys play this game because there are more girls. Everyone feels like they’re doing online dating.”
Jian Ai thought about Yu Dong’s words and suddenly understood something.
Although this game was more feminine, if girls played it too much, it would attract boys to play it as well. Perhaps thirty percent of the boys would play it, but seventy percent of them would be girls.
When there were more boys, there would be more girls.
Attracting the opposite gender was an unchanging truth that applied in games as well.
This was a virtuous cycle. As the cycle continued, the number of users would increase.
Jian Ai had to give the developer of this game a thumbs up. He was a genius!
“Then let’s play this game!” Jian Ai said.
She first logged into the game page and registered an account. Then, she chose the region and clicked confirm.
“This is a tutorial for beginners. Every new user has to do the mission of this tutorial. It’s mainly to teach you how to quickly familiarize yourself with the gameplay and various functions,” Yu Dong said as he taught Jian Ai how to operate.
Jian Ai understood. “I’ll study it myself.”
Putting on her earphones, she followed the tutorial in the game and started her first online game trip in her two lifetimes.
The background music in the game was pleasant music of various types. Coupled with the colorful scenes in the game, just this scene could easily arouse a girl’s interest.
Jian Ai clicked on every function in the game hall. The game mall attracted her the most. There were all kinds of game character clothes inside, and they were arranged in different categories.
There were two b.u.t.tons under each piece of clothing. Buy and give. In other words, not only could they buy it themselves, but they could also give it to others.
“You have to top up money to buy these clothes, right?” Jian Ai patted Yu Dong, who was typing on the keyboard and asked.
Yu Dong took off his earphones and looked at Jian Ai’s computer. Seeing that she was choosing clothes, he couldn’t help but smile. “As expected, you girls like to match these. It’s as if you can’t play games without beautiful clothes.”
“These all cost money. If you want to buy an entire set, a hundred yuan is enough if it’s cheap. However, the expensive ones are also a few hundred yuan. Let’s see how you match them!” Yu Dong explained to her calmly.
Other than clothes bought with money, clothes were also for sale using in-game tokens, but they were not that good-looking.
Girls would not buy such clothes that did not cost money. The game company also knew this result, but they still put them up for sale. The main reason was that they wanted to cater to everyone. Anyway, some clothes did not cost money. It was the players’ problem to buy them or not!
Jian Ai fumbled for a few rounds. Not to mention that it was quite interesting, but the sound of typing on the keyboard felt inexplicably satisfying. It was quite relaxing.
This time, she had completely opened the door to an unknown new world for herself.
“Alright, Yu Dong. You secretly brought the cla.s.s belle out to surf the Internet. Aren’t you afraid of being beaten up by everyone?!”
At this moment, two boys in the same cla.s.s were surfing the Internet and b.u.mped into the two of them. They immediately rushed up, hugged Yu Dong’s neck from behind, and scolded him with a smile.