Hu Die Lan
Chapter 637 The Right Train of Thought
“My meaning is, we have to grasp both with both hands, and both hands must be strong,” Wei Chen said.
“You’re so old, won’t it be too hard?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Making money, what isn't hard?” Wei Chen said.
“But now is our most important preparation period. Opponents like Excellent Era are still waiting for us ahead. Are you sure you can handle both?” Ye Xiu asked.
Wei Chen was silent for a long time. “Or… should we put it aside for now?”
“I think you need to soberly consider this matter. Your account business requires some investment in the early stages. First of all, this batch of accounts must be customized. If you buy max-level accounts directly from the market, you can’t control what their task achievements are like. It would be quite troublesome to inquire about detailed information from sellers to screen them, and it's impossible to find ones that completely suit your needs. If you customize them, if you find a studio to level them, it will take at least three months to go from level 0 to 70 in an old server. Moreover, the speed and price of studio leveling are directly linked. If you require this top speed, the account cost will increase…”
“I don't need to be so anxious!” Wei Chen said.
“You're not anxious? Don't forget, our team will start the Challenger League in September. Although skill points cannot be directly obtained by viewing a character, by analyzing equipment and skill power, skill points are not a secret that can be hidden. The higher the attention, the faster our team’s skill point situation will be exposed. At that time, Glory can’t possibly have no reaction at all. If they casually check this batch of our characters, they can clearly know that this series of randomly rewarded missions has been completely cracked. Do you think they will continue to remain indifferent?” Ye Xiu said.
“This…” Wei Chen was stunned. Only then did he realize that his account trading business actually conflicted with the team’s career.
Three months was just the fastest time to order accounts. Once the account was in hand, it would still have to go through a large number of tasks to increase skill points. This increase required manual operation, and this operation method was the biggest secret that could be used to make money. Of course, it was impossible to find someone to do it for him.
“There's also one more thing. If you want to buy ready-made accounts, you can collect them in the market. You can buy as many as you want. But this kind of account with special requirements can only be leveled from scratch. How many do you plan to prepare in a batch? 1000? Do you think there is any studio with such a large workforce that can level a thousand accounts to level 70 for you in three months? Glory leveling is all manual labor. For 1000 characters to reach level 70 in 3 months, it would require 24 hours of non-stop leveling. At least two people would have to be responsible for each character, right? Is there a studio with 2000 people right now?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Oh right, and… three months is what people can achieve according to the fastest leveling route. If you have this kind of special order to limit the blank space on the task, I really don't know if it can be achieved in three months,” Ye Xiu said.
“And…”
“Shut your sister up, can you shut up for a while?” Wei Chen interrupted Ye Xiu painfully. Obviously, he finally realized that this was a problem that needed to be decided. It was unrealistic to try to grasp both with both hands and not give up.
Ye Xiu didn't continue. Everyone understood Wei Chen’s inner struggle at this time.
This skill point account earning plan was likely a goal he had been working towards for the past few years. It certainly wouldn’t feel good to make such a choice now.
“So, ah…”
“Don't disturb me, let me think for a while,” Wei Chen interrupted Ye Xiu again.
Ye Xiu still wanted to say something, but Chen Guo decisively grabbed him. If this guy was to come up with some kind of mockery at this time, it would be too outrageous. So, Chen Guo didn't care what he wanted to say and stopped him first, just in case.
The training room was quiet. Even Baozi, who didn't quite understand the situation, felt that the atmosphere was quite heavy. He remained silent, and like everyone else, stared at Wei Chen with a serious expression.
Wei Chen didn't stop the game. He slapped the keyboard and threw the mouse, his face showing a gnashing expression. After a long while, he finally said, “Alright! Damn it, I've decided! Account business, let it go to hell!!”
In the end, Wei Chen still chose the professional circle!
In the professional circle, Wei Chen had only mixed around for two years, but he had been studying these skill points for as long as five years.
Then, those two years, Wei Chen had strived with ideals, while these five years could be considered struggling for a living.
When the choice was placed in front of him, Wei Chen quickly and decisively chose the former, those brief two years. Although he knew that this time, it might just be a flash in the pan.
“Good, Comrade Lao Wei is indeed wise. We really can't afford the account business right now!” Ye Xiu applauded.
“Go to hell! If you don’t win the championship, you compensate me for the loss!” Wei Chen cursed.
“Loss? What loss?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Such a big business can't be done, isn't that a loss?” Wei Chen said angrily.
“This business has a long cycle, high labor and material costs, and it's not a long-term business. A game company update can dismantle it. Its value isn't really that great,” Ye Xiu said.
“You say it so easily!” Wei Chen was very unhappy.
“I think the correct way of thinking is to directly buy and sell this strategy,” Ye Xiu said.
“What did you say?” Wei Chen was suddenly shocked.
“Buy and sell this strategy,” Ye Xiu said.
“Damn it!” Wei Chen seemed to suddenly wake up. He jumped up all of a sudden, walked back and forth a few steps, then suddenly turned his head and looked at Ye Xiu. “Beast!!”
“Although generally speaking, mastering technology is considered mastering the lifeline in the long term, I said before that this business will not last long. The game company holds an even more ruthless lifeline! So, just sell the technology,” Ye Xiu said.
“You're right! Why didn't I think of that sooner!” Wei Chen shouted.
“In that case, shouldn't we say hello to Mo Guang and the others?” Chen Guo asked.
“Oh, that’s for sure.” Ye Xiu’s expression was also rarely serious. Obviously, this math modeling incident made these guys realize the power of knowledge, and naturally they respected knowledge more.
“Then how do you sell it? You probably already have an idea, right?” Wei Chen said.
“The more someone needs it, the higher the price they can offer, of course,” Ye Xiu said lightly.
“Sell it to the clubs?” Wei Chen had already thought of it.
Professional clubs are certainly the most capable of profiting from powerful characters, and naturally they can offer the highest price for this thing.
The same character with full skill points is just for personal prestige for an ordinary player. But for professional teams, the more skill points there are, and the higher the character's skills are, it means that they can have more chances of winning on the field. And the benefits that each victory can bring them are certainly not the same as a player winning a match or two or three or four in the arena.
“But in that case, everyone will have characters with such high skill points,” Chen Guo said regretfully.
Originally, she thought that their team had a bunch of 5000-point characters, and the highest among other teams was only 4880 points for Tyranny’s Desert Dust. It was going to be so awesome. But now, everyone has 5000 skill point characters. Their sense of superiority disappeared before they even had time to experience it.
“It’s really unwilling to strengthen other opponents like this!” Wei Chen also sighed. But this guy’s greedy eyes had deeply betrayed him. Although he was unwilling, he still didn’t reject this method of strengthening opponents a little to suck some gold, because he quickly said, “But it didn’t strengthen them much. Those guys’ characters are only a hundred or two away from max level, almost the same.”
This was purely self-comfort. 100 or 200 skill points were definitely not as insignificant as Wei Chen said.
“Maybe they won’t necessarily use it. How famous are those established characters? Considering the value in that aspect, they might not just replace the original characters casually,” Chen Guo said.
This was obviously also self-comfort. God-level accounts were famous and might be temporarily retained because of this, but other accounts could always be replaced, right? In any case, the strength of the major teams would be greatly improved. This was definitely a fact.
“Well, you want to sell it for money, but you don’t want others to get any benefits. You guys are really something,” Ye Xiu said.
“Cough, the wish is beautiful, but we must accept the cruel reality,” Wei Chen said.
“But I think this matter is not as good as you think,” Ye Xiu said.
“How so?”
“If we promote this thing to various clubs now, I estimate that the major clubs will soon collude and form an alliance. At that time, it will become a transaction between us and the entire alliance,” Ye Xiu said.
“In that case, the price may be suppressed,” Wei Chen said.
“So, I think it’s better to just find one, and then agree on both sides to let them buy it out directly. In this way, the advantage of skill points will not spread to the entire alliance, and the benefits we can get may not be less than selling to so many companies,” Ye Xiu said.
“Beast, you must admit that you are a beast. Only a beast can come up with such a beastly idea,” Wei Chen kept saying, seemingly praising him.
“So, which club are you going to look for? Blue Rain? Tyranny? Samsara? I think Samsara is good. This club has great ambitions now, and may be able to offer the highest price,” Wei Chen said.
“Samsara is good, but I think they may not be the most eager,” Ye Xiu said.
“Then who else?” Wei Chen wondered.
At this time, Chen Guo suddenly reacted and guessed Ye Xiu’s intention: “Zhan Lou Lan!!!”