Lately, the question of exchanging Divine Power for cash had been a hot topic on the discussion boards.
Tang Yu had naturally noticed it too.
After seeing the suggestions players had made on the discussion boards, a plan gradually took shape in Tang Yu's mind.
He would build an in-game trading platform.
At present, in-game trades usually required two players to meet face-to-face, open the trade panel, and then make the exchange.
This made trading inefficient, indirectly slowing the players' progress.
For example, one player might be at a resource point while the other was at a respawn point. To trade, they had to agree on a location and then travel there.
The introduction of the teleportation array had improved matters, but plenty of problems remained.
Trading resources and equipment was fine. Although the two players still had to trade face-to-face, at least the exchange was secure: one side handed over Divine Power while the other gave the resources or equipment, all at the same time.
But trades exchanging Divine Power for cash had no such guarantees.
A player who paid cash might not receive any Divine Power, and a player who handed over Divine Power might not receive any cash.
That was because one party in a Divine Power-for-cash trade had to make the transfer in the real world.
Since the two sides couldn't exchange simultaneously, unscrupulous players could simply run off after receiving the cash or Divine Power, leaving the other party without the agreed payment.
Only a tiny fraction of players did this, but Tang Yu still thought the problem needed to be dealt with.
So the game had recently added a "Report" feature.
After the God-Demon Space reviewed a report and confirmed that the accused player had committed fraud, the player would be banned for three days and issued a warning. A repeat offense meant a ban of at least three years, up to a permanent ban.
The Report feature had clearly been effective.
Once they realized that committing fraud in the game could get them permanently banned, those players no longer dared to break the rules.
Since Omnipotent God required identity verification and each player could only have one account, a permanent ban meant saying goodbye to the game for good.
For a groundbreaking game like this, the cost of a permanent ban was simply too high. Players already hooked on the game naturally didn't dare risk it.
Still, a few players refused to believe it.
They were using Infinite Game Platform accounts that didn't belong to them. They figured that even if they got banned for continuing to scam people, it wouldn't matter to them; they could just switch to another Infinite Game Platform account and keep playing Omnipotent God.
One player was especially brazen. After successfully scamming someone, he even posted on the discussion board, saying he'd run out of Divine Power, conned an idiot, and now had cash to buy more.
As players denounced him, he posted a screenshot showing that he'd used the money he'd scammed to buy Divine Power. He couldn't have been more smug.
Tang Yu quickly taught him a lesson.
He immediately gave the player's Omnipotent God account a "three-year ban."
The player clearly hadn't grasped how serious this was. The next day, he logged out of his grandfather's Infinite Game Platform account and signed in with his own.
But when he entered the game, his account was still banned for three years.
His expression at that moment was priceless.
What the player didn't know was that Omnipotent God accounts had nothing to do with Infinite Game Platform accounts. In reality, they weren't linked to the platform's verified identities at all; they were bound to the players' souls.
So switching accounts wouldn't get around a ban.
Afterward, the player begged and pleaded for forgiveness on the discussion board. He said he'd returned the cash he'd scammed and even posted a screenshot of the refund, imploring the developers to pardon him.
But Tang Yu never lifted the ban.
He had decided to make an example of the player and show everyone the consequences of breaking the rules and committing fraud in the game.
After that, cases of fraud in the game disappeared without a trace. There were no more.
But the incident also made Tang Yu realize how important it was to add a "trading platform" to the game.
A trading platform would make transactions safer and more efficient.
It would also help players progress faster.
Once the Trading House was online, players could use filters to buy items that other players had listed for sale, whether resources, equipment, items, or Divine Power.
At the same time, he could charge a transaction fee of around 2% in Divine Power, giving him a little extra income.
After weighing the pros and cons, Tang Yu immediately set to work on the "Trading House" feature.
But there was one problem he needed to solve at this stage.
The game needed a recharge feature.
Players who wanted to buy Divine Power listed by others in the Trading House would have to transfer money in the real world to recharge their accounts.
Unlike in-game trades, a Divine Power trade meant that when a player bought another player's listed Divine Power, cash would be deducted from the buyer's real-world bank account and transferred to the seller's.
Tang Yu had decided to take only 2% of the Divine Power being traded, without receiving any cash commission.
But recharging the game with cash meant dealing with the Infinite Game Platform.
Tang Yu was perfectly capable of bypassing the platform's oversight and letting players exchange cash for Divine Power.
The problem was that it would be difficult to explain.
And it would look far too much like advanced technology.
The Infinite Game Platform's rules were protected by law.
Using his abilities to bypass those rules and add a recharge feature would have serious consequences.
So if he wanted to add Divine Power trading to the game, he still needed to negotiate with the Infinite Game Platform.
At that thought, Tang Yu began considering separating Omnipotent God from the Infinite Game Platform.
That way, many of the features he had in mind wouldn't be subject to the platform's interference.
For example, the "Omnipotent God Player Forum" and the "Player Livestream Room" he planned to build later...
Once those features went online, they would inevitably come under the Infinite Game Platform's oversight.
This was especially true of recharges. The Infinite Game Platform's policy was to take a 15% cut of all in-game purchases, which Tang Yu couldn't accept.
As for promoting the game, Tang Yu no longer cared about the channels the Infinite Game Platform offered.
Since Omnipotent God had launched, it hadn't relied on the platform's promotional channels or run any ads.
It had attracted new players entirely through word of mouth, videos made by game content creators, and articles written by gaming media.
So Tang Yu didn't think leaving the Infinite Game Platform would have any impact on Omnipotent God.
That same day, Tang Yu submitted an application to take Omnipotent God off the platform.
Several hours later.
The Infinite Game Platform held an emergency meeting, with all the senior executives in attendance.
When they received the delisting application from "Wonder Studio," they immediately realized they were in serious trouble.
They had been wondering how to hitch a ride on Omnipotent God, the express train to a new era. They never expected to be thrown off halfway there.
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