Chapter 598: The Man at the Top of the Food Chain

On January 25th of the third year of Gaia, Tianya Bieyuan.

At the first meeting of the Shanhai League, a total of nineteen people attended the meeting, and Ouyang Shuo jokingly called it the nineteen-member meeting.

Only one year has passed, and things have changed.

Last year when the bright moon shone on the river, they were only pursuing Hongying, but now the two are blatantly in a couple, envious of all the single dogs.

Last year, Lin Jing took the lead among all the adventure players with the seven-star Dragon Yuan. Now, Lei Yin, who has acquired the magic weapon Tai'a Sword, is competing with Lin Jing.

More importantly, at the auction, Bloody Romance, who spent millions of gold coins to buy the [Battle Blood] artifact set, is the well-deserved number one among adventure players.

Last year, Mulanyue was by Ouyang Shuo's side, but now it has been replaced by Song Jia. The news of their wedding caused waves in the alliance.

Whether it's Bai Hua or Feng Prison Huang, the way they look at Song Jia is weird.

Last year, the Black Mamba who was specially invited to attend had already vanished with the 【Rattlesnake Mercenary Group】. Instead, there is the more mysterious Black Snake and the Black Snake Guards who frighten the enemy.

The two brothers Song Wen and Song Wu also disappeared.

One was changed to be the city guard of Zhenhai City, and the other was appointed as the deputy head of the Leizhou County Security Division. Years later, Ouyang Shuo was ready to promote Song Wu to the division head of the Xunzhou County Security Division.

Since old people leave, new people will naturally join.

[A thread of thread] As an important member of the guild alliance, Qingsikou's attendance is not surprising at all. Surprisingly, Ji Yinghu and Meng Yuntunding appeared in Tianya Bieyuan.

Obviously, Ouyang Shuo wanted to take this opportunity to completely incorporate [Shadow Alliance] and [Yimenglou] into the alliance.

Going around and going around, going in and out in four directions, nineteen people finally attended the meeting.

In addition, there is another special existence, and he is Bai Xiaosheng.

In May of the second year of Gaia, Bai Xiaosheng founded the guild【Wild Wild Newspaper Office】. You can tell from the name that this is a very special guild, and the members of the guild are mainly reporters and editors.

The main business of [Wilderness Newspaper] is to cooperate with the government. On the official forum, a news column [Daily Express] is opened, which is responsible for reporting anecdotes and major events in the wilderness.

【Daily Express】Although it is paid to read, with the ability of Bai Xiaosheng's team to discover news, it is a bargain. Daily news, there are dry goods.

Players joked that by subscribing to [Daily Express], it is easy to "learn about major events in the world without leaving home".

[Daily Express]'s reporter stations are not only located in the Nine King Cities, but also cover more than 90% of the player territory in China, and Shanhai City is no exception.

Up to now, the number of paid subscribers of [Daily Express] has exceeded tens of millions. In other words, one out of every ten players in China has subscribed to [Daily Express].

If children are excluded, this ratio will be very astonishing.

Reading [Daily Express] every day has become one of the life habits of most players.

The pricing of [Daily Express] is very down-to-earth. Players only need to spend 2 copper coins per day to read all the news content.

Even if it takes ten years, it will not consume a single gold coin in total.

However, the huge payment base still brings huge profits to [Wilderness Newspaper]. Calculated based on the daily consumption of 2 copper coins per person, the daily turnover is 2,000 gold coins, which can be described as making a lot of money every day.

In addition to paid reading, advertising revenue is the bulk of [Daily Express].

Whether it is a guild or a territory, if you want to issue a [Recruitment Order], [Daily Express] is the best choice. If it is published on the forum, except for giant crocodiles like Shanhaicheng, it may be lost immediately.

In addition to the [Recruitment Order], the commercial promotion of special products in the territory, the transaction information of top items, and the release of clues for serial missions are also popular advertisements published in the [Daily Express].

Perfumes, cheongsams and other products launched by the Song Chamber of Commerce have been on the [Daily Express].

Today, similar news media have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Among them, there are both regional media, such as [Kyoto Express]; there are also professional media, such as [Xia Kedao].

All kinds of news media fully meet the reading needs of all kinds of players.

Even so, the [Daily Express] still dominates.

With this, Bai Xiaosheng became famous, and even made it to the [Celebrity List] in one fell swoop. Some people jokingly said that if Qiyue Wuyi is a giant among player lords, then Bai Xiaosheng is a veritable media giant.

Just a year ago, Bai Xiaosheng was just a well-known commentator on the forum. The sudden rise of Bai Xiaosheng is due to the "unique" business model of 【Daily Express】.

The quiet rise of the journalism industry has allowed countless people to see the business opportunities in it. In other words, the sudden popularity of journalism has once again impacted players' inherent game concepts.

To say that [Daily Express] has a unique business model is actually just a false proposition. Because in reality, this mobile information paid reading mode has matured as early as one or two hundred years ago.

Bai Xiaosheng's breakthrough was to successfully transplant this business model into the game world. Just like the perfume, cheongsam and other products launched by the Song Chamber of Commerce, it is an impact on the player's inherent thinking.

There is a common feature among them, which is to operate the game world as a real world, instead of sticking to the usual game thinking and maintaining the so-called "ancient flavor" in the game.

To put it simply, it returns to what Ouyang Shuo mentioned earlier, the theory of player group travel.

From Gaia’s behavior of setting up columns for [Daily Express] and other news media on the forum, it is not difficult to see that Gaia is encouraging on this point.

Realizing the game world is one of Gaia's goals.

Even if the immigrant fleet arrives at the planet of hope in the future, the cross-century game "Earth Online" can still continue to operate and become a part of people's daily life.

After all, the tempering and selection of talents is also a protracted process.

Business-minded people have already learned from the prosperity of the journalism industry and smelled other business opportunities.

On the forum, there are many prototypes of various industries, but there is a lack of a unified platform.

For example, online novels.

In fact, as early as a year ago, there were players who based on the game "Earth Online" and created related YY novels. The themes included online games, fantasy, martial arts, history, military and other major categories.

These novels are nothing but recreations written by the author.

However, if we can set up a dedicated online novel reading platform like [Daily Express] with official support, and then carry out professional operation and publicity, we can realize it immediately.

After all, in reality, paid reading of online novels has already become a mainstream.

Another example is web dramas and movies.

Combining the shooting equipment provided by Gaia with all kinds of exploration, fighting, war and other elements inherent in the game, as long as there are professional screenwriters and directors, it is not difficult to produce very exciting TV series and movies.

Now the forum is full of self-entertaining works taken by players.

Undoubtedly, only more sophisticated and professional production can have the ability to realize cash.

All of the above are entertainment.

If you jump out of this framework, your imagination will become even bigger.

For example, online shopping.

Since the cancellation of the super trading platform, cross-regional online shopping has become a luxury.

However, in reality, online shopping has long become the mainstream of people's consumption.

With the help of forums, start an online shopping platform, and then build a courier network with the help of post stations, you can easily replicate the real Taobao in the game.

All of these are unlimited business opportunities.

As a reborn person, Ouyang Shuo certainly knew that all of these had been accomplished one by one in his previous life. Not to mention these, the future industry has already jumped out of the constraints of official forums.

With the development of the game, there is no limit to the entertainment needs of players.

In the years to come, real singers will be reborn in the game one by one.

Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered that in the four years of Gaia's previous life, Lin Luo, the top superstar in reality, held a classical concert with games as the main body in the Kyoto Plaza, and the number of viewers directly exceeded 200,000.

With this concert alone, Lin Luo crazily sucked up half a million gold coins, and was known as the gold queen.

Not only real stars, but with the development of the entertainment industry, a large number of new generation stars have been born in the game. They are either peerless masters in the game, or top-level master-level skilled talents.

All in all, the future game world will be more and more integrated with the real world.

The reason why Ouyang Shuo didn't take advantage of being reborn to get in touch with these industries was because he insisted on one sentence: there are specialties in the art industry, and you can't eat more than you can eat.

It was no accident that Bai Xiaosheng was able to found [Wilderness Newspaper]. In reality, he is a senior media person with rich experience in news media operations.

Otherwise, 【Daily Express】wouldn't have become popular all of a sudden.

Similarly, other industries must rely on similar professionals if they want to truly discover the business opportunities.

For Ouyang Shuo, instead of being distracted by others, it is better to run the territory wholeheartedly, this is his main business. Just like now, even though Bai Xiaosheng was hailed as a media giant, he was still flattered to be invited by Ouyang Shuo.

After all, in "Earth Online", the lord is really at the top of the food chain.

In addition, there is a question of opportunity.

Whether it is online novels, online dramas, online shopping, or even celebrity concerts, there is a prerequisite, that is, the game world is relatively stable.

In the age of war and chaos, all of this is just a fantasy.

In the previous life, it was four years after Gaia that similar industries gradually began to emerge.