"800 silver coins equal 40,000 yuan, 8,000 silver coins equal 400,000, 80,000 silver coins equal 4 million... 4 million..."
All right.
There was actually a huge problem with calculating it that way.
You did not even need a groundbreaking immersive virtual reality online game. Anyone who had played two blockbuster MMORPGs knew what the so-called "gold price" was all about.
By the time he could casually put hundreds of thousands of silver coins up for sale on the forums, silver coins would probably no longer be worth that much.
But—
If he could reach level thirty or even forty while everyone else was still level twenty, and while everyone else wore power armor, he could pilot a starship and toss power armor down from above, then what did it matter if silver coins were no longer so valuable?
When everyone else had ten thousand silver coins in their pockets, he might already have several hundred million.
As long as he stayed in the first tier and remained ahead of the patch cycle, even if 50 silver coins equaled one yuan, he might not earn any less than when 1 silver coin was worth 50 yuan.
If a new version launched, new equipment was released, or a large number of players joined the game, the price of silver coins might even rise instead.
At present, Wasteland OL only had 1,600 closed beta players, yet the number of reservations had already exceeded one million. A bunch of people had somehow driven the price of silver coins through the roof with hype, a pile of pie-in-the-sky game screenshots, and CG videos amid a chorus of unbelievable reactions.
This was only the beginning.
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, everyone would have a helmet. Closing their eyes would bring them into a second world, and