Let you make animations and develop virtual Pokémon? Chapter 015

Meanwhile, in the live stream of Douyin streamer Taozi.

“Pokémon Encyclopedia? And you even built a community for us fans?”

Upon hearing Gu Xian’s narration in the live stream, Taozi eagerly opened a new webpage, re-entered the Arceus official website, and downloaded the PC version of the Arceus platform.

“Brothers and sisters, charge! We’re going to be among the first users of the Pokémon community!”

Not just Taozi, but all the major top game streamers across the entire network were rapidly leading their live stream fans to charge towards the Arceus platform.

For these top streamers, if they were to play a new game on a normal day, it would basically be a commercial order; in other words, game companies would have to pay them.

However, times have changed. Pokémon had already become explosively popular across the entire network half a year ago, coupled with the uniqueness of virtual games, there was no need for Ye Xiao to seek them out for promotion.

These top game streamers weren’t fools. The future trend of the entire gaming industry would definitely be virtual Pokémon. If they didn’t get in early now, what awaited them would be ruthless elimination.

“Do I even have to bind my ID card? The Arceus platform is going to implement a one-person-one-account system. Alright! Registration complete! Everyone can follow my account. I’ll go check out the functions of this software first.”

After registering her account, Taozi began browsing through various sections. First, she saw the complete type effectiveness chart:

Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel, Fairy.

“So there are 18 types of Pokémon? Hiss… I feel like my brain is going to grow. The type effectiveness chart is so complicated.”

Taozi roughly memorized a few things, then clicked to enter the Pokémon Pokédex section.

[Pokémon Pokédex]

[Number: NO.0001]

[Name: Bulbasaur]

[Number: NO.0004]

[Name: Charmander]

[Number: NO.0007]

[Name: Squirtle]

“What’s going on? Why are there only 3 Pokémon in the official Pokédex? Eh? What’s this ‘Official Pokédex Assistance Plan’ below?”

Official Pokédex Assistance Plan!

This was specially designed by Ye Xiao for players. As a game planner in his previous life, he understood very well how to keep players engaged.

The Pokémon Pokédex on the Arceus platform would closely follow players’ footsteps in real-time.

Once a brand new Pokémon was first captured by a player, the official Pokémon Pokédex would instantly update the specific information of that Pokémon, making it visible to everyone.

And the player who first captured that Pokémon would be “recorded in history,” receiving the title of the initial discoverer of the corresponding Pokémon on the Arceus platform, along with 100 platform points as a reward.

Furthermore, even if a player wasn’t the first to capture a Pokémon, upon capturing a brand new Pokémon for the first time, they would still receive 1 platform point as a reward.

1 point = 1 yuan.

Points cannot be directly cashed out, they can only be used to offset the cost of purchasing items on the platform, such as future platform memberships, Pokémon merchandise, and the next game, etc.

This method can greatly increase player stickiness, enhance players’ motivation to capture Pokémon, and provide a greater sense of accomplishment when capturing a new Pokémon, and it can also bring an excellent reputation to the Arceus Company.

And what Ye Xiao had to pay was just earning a little less money.

The price he set for the game was not cheap to begin with. Most major buy-to-play games on the market are priced around 300 yuan.

And a single game version of the Pokémon series only has about 150 Pokémon. What if a game priced around 800 yuan gives back 150 yuan to the players?

The 100 points reward for the first capture goes without saying; the spots are limited, only as many as there are Pokémon in a version.

What Ye Xiao wants to do is to popularize Pokémon more comprehensively while making money. This is one of his strategies.

…

While Gu Xian was live streaming, Ye Xiao had already returned to his office, lying in his chair, eyes slightly closed.

He didn’t know when it started, but he always liked to do nothing, just lie there and enjoy the peace.

Recalling his experiences over the past year, Ye Xiao felt like he was dreaming. First, he and his team made the Pokémon anime, then he contributed the technology he exchanged from the system to the country and reached a cooperation, then expanded the company, and developed virtual Pokémon in one fell swoop.

Before going to the capital to contribute technology to the country, Ye Xiao had indeed thought about whether the country would “slice him up.”

After all, it would be strange if the country wasn’t suspicious of him, a lone individual, suddenly producing such a cross-era black technology.

Fortunately, no matter which world it is, it’s always this realistic. If he can bring benefits to the other party, then the other party can turn a blind eye to certain things.

“Knock knock knock…”

At this moment, a light and rhythmic knocking sound echoed.

“Come in.”

As soon as Ye Xiao finished speaking, the office door was quickly pushed open.

“Boss! Great news! In just this short while, the download and registration numbers for the Arceus platform have both exceeded two million! Pre-order sales for the virtual helmet have also surpassed 100, 000, and game sales have reached 800, 000!”

Upon hearing Rui Qing’s report, Ye Xiao, lying in his chair, revealed a smile.

100, 000 virtual helmets, that’s 3 billion!

800, 000 copies of the game, that’s about 640 million!

In just one live stream, it generated a value exceeding 3.5 billion!

Damn it, compared to making animations, making games is truly a huge profit!

Of course, whether it was the company’s initial start-up or subsequent promotion, it was inseparable from the country’s assistance.

Without the name of cooperating with the country, it would have been impossible for equipment priced at 30, 000 yuan to sell so much during the pre-sale stage.

However, the game’s pre-sale volume being a full 700, 000 higher than that of the virtual helmets was something Ye Xiao hadn’t expected.

This is enough to show that most people are still in a wait-and-see state.

Based on this alone, Ye Xiao could already imagine how popular the offline experience stores would be.

However, in that case, the more than one hundred offline experience stores nationwide are still too few. Given the current situation, even 500 or more would not be an exaggeration.

It seems like there will be a lot to do these next few days.