A Brand-New Era of Gaming Was About to Begin

At Starfield Game Company.

The lights were still blazing inside the company, and it was clear there was a lot going on today.

Starfield arrived at the game's backend monitoring station and turned to Luan Le'an. "How many people have signed up for the pre-download so far?"

Luan Le'an looked at the data on the computer and said excitedly, "President Su, look here. This is the pre-download count."

"It's going up by hundreds every second. Tens of thousands of people have clicked pre-download since we opened it."

"I estimate it'll reach a million in half an hour."

Su Ye looked at the data on the computer and thought it over before nodding in satisfaction.

It seemed players really were enthusiastic about their game. Of course, Qisheng's Shooting Simulator had played no small part in that.

He had thought that hastily copying and releasing a shooting game would let him be the first to cash in, but in fact, he was merely promoting PUBG for them.

A garbage game like Shooting Simulator would only make players look forward to an excellent shooting game even more-in other words, their PUBG.

Players had only played Shooting Simulator before because there was no alternative. Once his PUBG servers went live, it would spell the end of Shooting Simulator.

You've had a month to get a taste, kid, but I doubt you've even made your money back.

Su Ye smiled and said, "Send the game to my computer first. I'll log in and try it."

Hearing that, Luan Le'an hurriedly enabled the game on Su Ye's account. Su Ye sat down nearby, opened the game, and saw the familiar intro animation.

The logo had been changed to their company's logo, and Su Ye was very pleased to see it.

"By the way, how are the server preparations going?"

This was an online game, and it had demanding server requirements. If too many players caused the servers to crash, that was something he absolutely could not allow.

Luan Le'an hurriedly replied, "Don't worry, President Su. We've prepared the best servers, capable of accommodating ten million players online at once."

"Even if there's a malicious attack, we have backup servers to accommodate the players."

"All right. Go tell everyone else that after tonight's overtime, they'll each get a five-hundred-yuan bonus."

"Ah, sure thing, President Su."

Luan Le'an spoke happily.

Sitting at the computer, Su Ye downloaded the game onto his VR device.

He had to admit, this world's VR technology really was advanced. He felt no discomfort at all wearing the headset.

He had tried a VR headset before, but perhaps because he was unfamiliar with it, the experience hadn't been very good.

Now, trying it again, he noticed the difference between VR and a computer.

He had entered a custom room, and his character was sitting on a plane, looking at the flight path map in his hands.

It was an experience a computer simply couldn't compare to.

Listening to the roar of the plane in his ears, Su Ye felt for a moment as though he had really gone to the battlefield, and he was thrilled.

He confirmed the jump, and the seat beneath his character dropped instantly, sending him sliding out through the bottom of the plane.

Su Ye flew through the air, listening to the wind rushing past his ears. There was no actual sensation of touch, though; that was a special experience only a game capsule could provide.

Of course, the realistic sensation of a character taking damage was also capped at thirty percent. That was mainly because he was worried some players bent on courting death would actually want to experience it in the game. He wasn't into BDSM, so he simply set the maximum at thirty percent.

Seeing that his altitude was about right, Su Ye pulled the parachute on his back and slowed down in an instant. He steered the parachute down in front of a house.

The parachute vanished as soon as he landed, and his character touched down smoothly.

Looking at the house in front of him, Su Ye examined it carefully and found it very lifelike. Although it was still in a 2D style, it had achieved realism within that style.

Although characters couldn't directly destroy houses, bullets left marks and traces of gun smoke when they hit them.

He found a gun at random and began spraying bullets at a wall.

The gun's bullet trajectory was well controlled. Rather than following a brain-dead straight line, it had recoil with a certain pattern to it.

After trying it out, Su Ye exited the game, satisfied.

Beside him, Luan Le'an was already concentrating entirely on the data on the computer screen and didn't notice Su Ye taking off his gaming headset.

Seeing that, Su Ye didn't want to disturb him. He got up, went to the window, and lit a cigarette.

With brand-new gameplay and this world's VR technology, he still had many games he hadn't brought out.

He believed that combining the two would produce an unprecedented synergy.

League of Legends, Delta Force, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Naraka: Bladepoint...

Once all these games were released, it would be a brand-new era, an era belonging to games.

With PUBG's release this time, he had to establish an offline tournament system and show everyone the appeal of games.

When the time came, he would need to start with stadiums. Once the tournaments gradually grew more popular, he would need to build a competition venue exclusively for Starfield.

It would be a massive venue, the kind that could hold hundreds of thousands of people. He wanted gaming tournaments to reach the same heights as the World Cup and make gamers around the globe turn their eyes to it.

Time passed second by second, and the brand-new era of gaming was finally about to make itself heard.

In the livestreams of major gaming streamers such as Xiao Dingdang and Chen Ze, the Xingye Gaming Platform was open.

The countdown at the top continued to tick down, second by second.

With one minute left on the countdown, the streamers and countless players had already begun calling it out without realizing it.

60, 59, 58...

Sitting in front of his computer, Xiao Dingdang had clenched his hands tightly in anticipation, sweat unwittingly breaking out on his palms.

His eyes were fixed on the countdown on the screen, his lips slightly parted as he kept counting in an excited, trembling voice.

"Ten."

"Nine."

"Eight."

"Seven."

"..."

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!!!"

The countdown ended, and a download cursor appeared in the lower-right corner of the gaming platform, displaying a yellow download button.

[Download game]

Players who had signed up for the pre-download had already begun downloading it.

Just then, an announcement popped up.

[A brand-new era of gaming has arrived. "PUBG" will bring everyone a brand-new gaming experience. Let us welcome this brand-new era of gaming together.] - Starfield Games

Far away, high up in a Shencheng skyscraper, Su Ye stood in front of the glass, quietly looking out at a cityscape even more bustling than the one in his previous life.

Countless lights twinkled, and the city's skyscrapers stood in row upon row, their lights sparkling like golden scales.

Smoke from the cigarette in his hand drifted steadily out the window as he quietly felt the frenzy hidden beneath the city, a frenzy belonging to gamers alone.