Chapter 176 Irreversible Aftermath (2)
Arcadia’s economic system is designed more elaborately than any other game.
Although elements were applied considering the convenience to some extent because of the users who enjoy the game, it was a structure that had a frighteningly excellent reality.
“You shouldn’t just take Arcadia as a game and recklessly sign a strange contract. If you really do something wrong, you can become a slave and forcefully quit the game.”
“You don’t know about that mining slavery case? Don’t take it lightly because they’re NPCs. If they ask you to write a contract, stop being suspicious and read it really carefully.”
From the contract system that has strong binding power through the system.
“This is such a big deal… City development is about to come to a halt due to lack of stone.”
“Could you get me some stone? Make sure to pay generously.”
The imbalance of resources in each city and village and the quests generated by it.
“You know what? The price of general weapons has plummeted recently because of Dwarven equipment?”
“I know. Because of that, all the rookies who pretended to be blacksmiths disappeared.”
Even the price of each item, which plunges and soars due to various variables and external factors.
The law of supply and demand is not strange even if it is really real. Seeing this world of Arcadia where the invisible hand is working smoothly, many prominent economists were shocked.
[The most astonishing thing about Arcadia, a virtual reality game, is that the market price of thousands of tens of thousands of items fluctuates in real time according to the countless cities and towns that exist on the huge continent and the ever-changing situation.
] Just look at the case. The amount of price change according to risk is terrifyingly accurate, to the extent that the price fluctuations of grains seen in the recent sudden change do not differ much even when applied to reality. No, how much economic engineering is applied to a single game? And how does such a huge system work?]
[The more frightening thing is… the value of gold used in Arcadia is getting bigger and bigger. Demand to purchase this virtual currency through real goods is exploding. However, compared to such demand, the amount of gold that can be acquired in the game is limited. Because virtual NPCs don’t sell gold in exchange for real goods.]
The supply of gold could not keep up with the explosively growing demand for gold from wallet warriors. Therefore, the price of gold continued to rise, but that did not mean that the supply increased easily.
“I’d rather be a little stronger than make money selling gold.”
“hit. At the beginning of the game, growth comes first. Gold, well, even if you sell only one unique item later, you will earn a lot in one shot.”
A game that does not have a cash-like fractional euro model at all. As a result, gold was the payment method for all content in the game, so most users ended up using it without even having time to collect gold.
Except for some users, I couldn’t even think of selling gold. In addition, the fact that the workshop is a game that cannot be touched at all further accelerated this imbalance between supply and demand.
“Boss Lu Lufeng! It was a big deal.”
“what? what’s the matter?”
Lufeng was running a huge workshop using hundreds of capsules. He was stunned by the words of a subordinate who suddenly came running to him with a contemplative face.
“All of our employees’ accounts have been permanently suspended.”
“what….?”
Lufeng was standing in a daze with an expression as if he had been hit in the head with a hammer. And he stuttered and shouted, as if he didn’t understand, as if he was embarrassed.
“Does that make sense? No, it hasn’t even been a day since I started working on it! But how come you are already suspended?”
The situation where employees just created characters and started simple labor to earn gold most efficiently, whether it was mining or gathering. He had never made a profit by selling gold yet, but he couldn’t come to his senses at the fact that he had been permanently banned.
“That’s not all! All the capsules we prepared have been deactivated because a negative attempt was detected! Even if employees with other accounts try to use it, they cannot access it!”
“What!”
Expensive equipment worth 10 million won per unit. In addition, considering that each employee has already paid hundreds of thousands of won for game fees, they have suffered billions of dollars in losses. No matter how well-funded the workplace was, it was not a scale of damage that they could easily afford, so they gritted their teeth and inquired and apologized to the game company. However, Arcadia Co., Ltd.’s response to them was swift and ruthless.
[At Arcadia Co., Ltd., we strictly prohibit the act of manipulating the market price through repetitive labor activities and disrupting the supply of certain items, using only the acquisition of goods called the so-called workshop as a means. The disposition of those who were caught and sanctioned this time was a decision made through a close review and detailed analysis by the management team after this activity was detected by our own security program ‘Aegis’. Therefore, there will be no relief or adjustment for this, and I hope that it will sound an alarm to all those who are trying to gain financial benefits through these workplaces in the future. Also…..]
To put it simply, ‘Don’t change it. no. The game company wields the mace of the permanent van to its heart’s content in the workshop, sorting out this situation with ‘Go back.’ Thanks to this, several workshops that were notorious for running auto programs in numerous games in the past disappeared with irreparable damage, receiving applause and praise from many gamers.
-Wow….. You’re really missing the paddle. dog is scary
-Wait a minute, but if you are permanently suspended, will you not be able to play virtual reality games in the future?
– Maybe so? It is connected to the Argos account, but the rule is that one account per person.
-that’s right. There’s even a biometric authentication system, so you won’t be able to access it by borrowing someone else’s name…..
-What, if you get permanently suspended, you’re completely kicked out of the virtual reality service?
– Wow….. Isn’t that very serious? The number of services related to virtual reality has increased, but I don’t think it will decrease any more than it is now… As
attempts to apply virtual reality technology have been actively made in various industries recently, the supply of Dreamer has been accelerating tremendously.
– Official launch of virtual reality office for Ajin Electronics telecommuting.
– Promoted a contract to develop a real-time combat training system using virtual reality technology from the Ministry of National Defense.
-Concluded a graphic editing technology contract using virtual reality in the future studio.
-Mizuni, a world-class theme park company. Consultation on the construction of a large-scale theme park in virtual reality.
work or leisure. The reality that started consultations to transplant many things into virtual reality without covering anything. Therefore, the fact that they were permanently expelled from the market of such a huge virtual reality was tantamount to a terrifying social death sentence in which they had to suck their fingers and not be able to participate in the huge future transformation and change that would begin in the future.
In this way, Arcadia Co., Ltd. began to deeply root its influence on the entire earth without knowing it. In this situation where virtual reality technology is successfully settling down, when several companies struggle to find their own survival strategy. Some countries have even stepped up a little more aggressively.
“Report Director Yasuhiro.”
Tokyo, Japan.
In a secret meeting attended by several officials held there, Yasuhiro, director of the Cabinet Investigation Office responsible for all internal and external intelligence operations and covert operations in Japan, was unable to hide the serious face of the situation and learned about the consequences of the recent situation. I opened my mouth to report.
“Due to this Dragon Crisis, Vaylan, which we used as our base, was completely devastated. In addition, most of the nobles, the representatives of each country, who gathered for the auction were also killed, and the losses we suffered have been ascertained so far…” Regarding Arcadia
and the potential for virtual reality technology and its added value, any country Japan, which had a quick insight. They have encouraged the introduction of virtual reality services even by the government, made or amended laws, and made every effort to make virtual reality popular among people by removing all unnecessary obstacles.
But Japan’s thoughts did not stop there.
“Although it is a game, there are many empires and kingdoms within this continent. It’s kind of like seeing the Warring States period in Japan in the past. And in this dizzying chaos, we have confirmed that users can also become kings and rule the country.”
A witch hunt in the Korean continent. And as a result, the black flame dragon of darkness became the first king in history as a user. Through his case, the Japanese government came up with a dreamlike idea.
“Then, doesn’t that mean we can create a Japanese empire by directly unifying the continent?”
Although it is a virtual reality, the possibility of conquering all the countries and creating a single Japanese empire within it. It’s an idea that sounds crazy just by listening to it, but at the strong insistence of those who still haven’t forgotten the nostalgia of the Japanese Empire, which was as brilliant as it was in the past, they secretly but meticulously began to plant such a possibility in the game.
And the great ambition to create such a Japanese empire began to stumble from the start. Because of the sudden disaster in Beylan this time.
“So… are you saying that most of the main NPCs we’ve been working on to increase friendship as much as possible have died?”
“That’s right. In the case of some small and medium kingdoms, they are still alive, but… All relations with the two empires, the nobles and those in power who have put the most effort into it have been severed.”
enormous gold.
In other words, those who raised their friendship to the maximum level through bribery.
The fact that the plan to use the aristocrats to influence and expand their power in various countries collapsed overnight, and the faces of those who participated in this meeting were all stained with despair. Because it was a part where a lot of budget and effort was spent, the sense of loss touched me even more.
“I can’t believe it….. how much gold I poured in and this happened.”
“…what the hell was the Cabinet Office doing while all this was going on? Shouldn’t we have prepared for this to happen in advance and launched an operation!”
High-ranking officials in the Japanese cabinet swear at those words and reprimand them one by one. One day, a dragon suddenly appeared and kuaaaa! It was an extraordinary event that even those with obsessive-compulsive disorder would never expect to see all the nobles who were involved in such a situation and die, so Director Yasuhiro, who was in charge of the operation, felt a lot of unfairness.
But things have already happened. As a result, he suffered enormous tangible and intangible losses, so Director Yasuhiro had no choice but to bow his head and apologize.
“…. I have no face.”
“no! Is this something to cover up by saying that I have no face now!”
“If the Prime Minister knows about this, do you think this will end with you alone? uh?”
This situation caused great confusion even within the Japanese government. However, the people involved in all of this were preoccupied with admiring the spoils in their hands as they stood in a daze in a huge hollow.
[You have entered the rare Red Dragon Kervenian.]
[You can move to a limited rare once a day.]
“Wow…..”
The ceiling seemed to be hundreds of meters high. Jaeyoung was speechless when he faced the mountain of glittering gold coins in the endless underground cave.
“Oh master. Do you think the one we caught was a really filthy greedy lizard? I’ve collected a lot of them.”
“Iknow, right. To collect them on this scale would be impossible even for an old dragon-class dragon unless they ate a lot… He must have been a very evil guy.”
A huge amount of gold piled up like a really small mountain.
Numerous kingdoms and empires have disappeared and reappeared over thousands of years. Kervenian’s rare, filled with countless goods stolen from it and precious treasures and jewels extorted from various other races, including Dwarves.
Seeing this, Jaeyoung thought for the first time.
In fact, this game wasn’t like X.
