Chapter 295.1: Change Of Heart

Bull And Horse Club.

The group chat was livelier than usual.

Although many people in this group had filled out the application form early, in fact, less than one-fifth of them actually received the invitation, and most of them were still waiting to get into the game.

- Hahaha! I just saw a fool selling 5 silver coins for 1 RMB, and it disappeared in an instant.

- Damn it! Somebody bought it before me!

- Noice! Just now, I saw a top dog listing 800 silver coins! It was sold for 40,000 RMB!

- Holy shit!

- @administrator, was it your guys?!

Newbies were definitely not able to take out so many silver coins.

Although they haven't played the game, they often saw those damn administrators bragging about their gameplay in the group, so they had a better understanding of the situation in the game.

However, because no one came out to claim that it was them who made the deal, the topic quickly changed to something else.

But as the chat continued, the administrators eventually still popped up.

Night Ten: Brothers.

Quit Smoking: What's wrong?

Night Ten: I want to go pro.

Quit Smoking: ?

Old White: ...

Gale: ...

Ample Time: side_glance.jpg.

Night Ten: What?! What are those reactions of yours? I'm at least the player with the highest perception level in the entire server! Is it strange for me to go professional?

Ample Time: No, I just want to ask, which 'casual player' would be online twelve hours a day. (Side glance)

Quit Smoking: Hahaha, I also want to ask if this is not considered professional, then what's professional?

Mosquito: Nice! Very energetic! Come fly with me, it's very exciting! (Grin)

Night Ten: Get lost!

No Love: Sigh, it's so tempting... Earning 100 silver coins a day, doesn't that mean you can make 5,000 RMB a day? Damn it! I should have filled out the form with you guys!

Tomato Eggs: This price fluctuation is indeed a bit outrageous. Do you think someone will use this thing to launder money?

𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Ample Time: Emmm... I don't know about using games to launder money, but in reality, money laundering needs to meet three conditions. It must be difficult to track, the trading volume must be large enough, and the dealer must have a high degree of control. But none of these three conditions are met here.

The platform on the forum did not provide payment tools. Money laundering did not just mean changing USD into Zimbabwean currency, but turning illegal income into legal income. The anonymity of Wasteland Online only referred to the anonymity of players. But when A used the banking system to transfer money to B to buy game equipment, it couldn't be done anonymously.

As for the trading volume, the turnover rate of the total trading volume of less than a few million silver coins was close to 200%. Leaving aside the question of how much could be laundered, even if the facts were ignored, which fool would use someone else's platform to launder money?

Moreover, there would at least be some news when the Federal Reserve wanted to print money, but if Wasteland Online wanted to hammer the market, it was just a matter of adjusting data with a few clicks of a button.

They could give people hundreds of millions of silver coins and then lock their accounts under the reason of abnormal transaction activities, and nobody would be able to do anything about it.

If people really used the platform to launder money, they could potentially lose everything.

Using game equipment to launder money was more risky than using US stocks to launder money. At least the transaction volume of the latter was large enough, and the overseas investment income could really be made legal through certain operations.

Game Coins were the medium of transaction in the game, but they were game equipment outside the game. The issuance of this thing was adjustable in the hands of the game company. Today one could exchange 1,000,000 USD for one million silver coins or a piece of gaming equipment, but this million dollars may be worth only 100 USD the next day.

Unless the game company cooperated with the people who wanted to launder money.

But why would a company that already had a gold mine wanted to cooperate with those people?

Obviously, the fact that the gaming helmets could be delivered to players, and the official website of Wasteland Online could be accessed normally for so long meant that the game company had obtained a certain degree of approval from various government organizations even if there was no written permission from them.

But Tomato Eggs was a chef after all, so it was normal to have a narrow mind. Most people would only know what money laundering was at most, and not many people would really know what kind of operation process would be involved in it.

Ample Time: Beta 0.2 released this time is actually very interesting. The game company does not directly price silver coins, but allows players to consign and sell them freely. Even the handling fee is only charged with silver coins. It is obvious that the development company of Wasteland Online has no intention of using this platform to make money at all. Many of you must have made some money, but I don’t know if you have thought about the company's motivation for doing this.

Ye Wei, who was holding the phone, blushed.

To be honest, he really hadn't thought about it before.

What motivation...

Ample Time: Nasdaq was originally established to regulate the chaotic over-the-counter trading market in the

United States

and provide financing channels for small enterprises. Offline transactions of silver coins have always existed, but the scale is small and no one has made it public. When the number of players increases, some people will definitely start a trading platform like IGXE outside the forum. Now it's like the game company is making this platform by itself. It is safer for the players, more transparent prices, and easier for the game company to regulate..

In addition to regulating the market, it is to allow players who joined the game since alpha to realize part of their in-game revenue. Although it sounds strange, this is indeed the game company rewarding us.

And the rewards weren’t small either.

As long as the alpha players were smart and didn't sell 100 silver coins for 10 cents, most of them would be able to make a little bit of money when the trading platform was first launched.

Especially Yaya...

She was actually able to sell 1 silver coin for 1 BTC. Everyone really wanted to know which fool bought it.

Later Yaya even took the initiative to come out and said that she would return the money, but no one knew why the buyer still didn't come out.

It could only be said that Yaya hit the jackpot.

Mosquito: Do you think there will be fools who will sell their equipment for silver coins? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Ample Time: Fools exist all the time, but it's common sense that whether it is selling your own equipment or having a more conservative approach in the game, it will cause you to fall from the leaderboards.

- Let's make a prediction. There will be 2 trends in the future. One is that the assets in the game will be more transparent. Cloud Gamers will pay more attention to the land prices, equipment prices, and economic trends of the New Alliance. They will even write strategies based on the information we provide, as well as indirectly invest in in-game industries by way of other players holding game assets on their behalf.

Not everyone had actually been to the colonies in the Age of Discovery. Most people may have only read a few lines on the newspapers, but this did not prevent a certain London professor of physics and the director of the mint from possibly holding a colonial company stock.

The silver coins trading platform was set to accept any form of assets.

In addition to real-world assets, of course it also supported trading in-game assets. At the same time, the method of investing in the game world was not only limited to trading silver coins, but also other things.

For example... Technology.

Although there were many black magic technologies in the game, and the batteries on the exoskeleton were all solid hydrogen, the most basic railway and communication facilities were still at the level of World War II.

Wasteland Online, which was still in the Beta test, still had unlimited potential, and these were potential markets.

Ample Time: The second trend is that it will be more difficult to maintain a level advantage than in the Alpha test. Casual players can play as they please, but those who are willing to play professionally will invest more silver coins in increasing their levels and combat power. Especially the latest traveling merchant system and corps system! These systems will burn a lot of money, but the rewards will also be huge!

- The Beta test will be a reshuffle, and the players from the Alpha test will cash out part of the benefits according to their contribution. After seeing the Alpha test players' income, the players in the Beta test will work even harder to level up before they reach the next round.

- To sum up, if you have spare silver coins to sell, sell some. Give newcomers a little chance, and a better gaming experience, and improve their lives by the way.

- But remember not to sell too much. After all, silver coins are one of your 'shares' in this game in addition to contribution points and sequence levels. Excessive overdraft will lead to being eliminated in the Beta test, and your position will be replaced by new shareholders. If that happens, you can say goodbye to the next round.

- In addition, be a little careful when trading. There are many game equipment trading platforms, but there is no law that stipulates that reselling game equipment is illegal. No one would care about small amounts of private transactions, but if the amount is too large, it is best to consider the payment method carefully.

- And don't forget to pay your taxes.

Ample Time said a lot of things seriously, and Ye Wei felt that half of them were said to him, especially the last part.

In the end... He felt that Ample Time was still a little too worried.

He was not stupid after all, and how would he exchange all his silver coins for money?

Even a farmer would know to set aside seeds for spring plowing, not to mention he had been playing games for so many years. His understanding of equipment trading rules and real-world cases was much better than that of some newbies who didn't understand anything and just made random analysis on the forum.

Just when Ye Wei took out the banknotes and calculated how many silver coins would be more suitable for consignment, he suddenly noticed that someone in the group had messaged him.

There were only 4 people in the small group, and Ample Time who had typed a lot of words in the large group pinged everyone in the small group again.

Just as Ye Wei wanted to ask why Ample Time pinged him, Ample Time followed up with a message in the group chat, which made him hold his breath involuntarily.

Ample Time: I've discussed with Old White that the Bull and Horse Brick Factory has been in operation for half a year, but we've never had a dividend before. So taking advantage of the launch of the trading platform, we decided to give out some dividends.

Dividends!

Ye Wei almost forgot about it.

Old White was the director of the Bull and Horse Brick Factory, but the 4 held shares equally, each holding 5%, totaling 20%.

Since the shelter held 80% of the shares, distributing dividends was actually not a good decision. If they used the earned silver coins to buy equipment and land, they could hire more labor to expand production, and they could make the cake bigger and bigger, so no silver coins had been distributed since the early version of the Alpha test until now.

Thinking of the rewards given by the exclusive missions completed by the brick factory, Ye Wei was instantly excited.

Ample Time: ... Silver coins should arrive in the account within 2 hours. Although I am optimistic about the long-term value of Wasteland Online, the value of second life cannot be measured with cash in our hands, but the price of silver coins will definitely drop in the short term.

- There were too many people in the big group, so I didn't say what I wanted to say lest someone will post our conversation on the forum. I will just say a few more words here.

- We’ll set aside funds for the development of Burning Corps.

- And dump the rest.

...

On the second day after the Beta 0.2 version went live.

After being busy all day during the day in real life, Zhang Hai lay down on his bed at night and put on his helmet. But as soon as he logged into the game, he noticed that the atmosphere of the game completely changed.

Originally, everyone would come to him to buy noodles as soon as they went online, but today they all went to buy nutrient cream and the green wheat cake made by the residents of Baker Street.

There were long queues at the entrances of the NPC shops, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Zhang Hai knew the reason the moment he saw it, but looking at the steaming cauldron and the empty tables and chairs, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Alas, the fickleness of human friendships!"

"Damn those cheapskates! Is that really necessary? Don't you have anything else in your eyes except money?"

An old customer of his who happened to pass by heard this complaint and immediately retorted.

Night Ten snorted instantly, "Are you not embarrassed?!"

Irene also followed up, "Your noodles are the most expensive, alright!"

Elf Wang added at the side, "6 silver coins for a bowl of ramen! Why don't you just rob us!"

Seeing as everyone had arrived to scold him, Escaping Mole ran over and continued to rattle on, "Exactly! Boss Ya at least has big boobs! And her voice is also pleasant to hear! But what do you have?"

Zhang Hai had a bad temper, and he also had a sharp tongue, so he immediately snapped back, "How do you know that mine aren't big? Want to try?"

Night Ten instantly turned away. "Fuck off!"

Quit Smoking couldn’t take the comment either and started to dry heave. "Eww, eww, eew!"

The nutrient cream in their hands was no longer fragrant.

Only when Zhang Hai noticed that he made customers run away in disgust, did he start to regret what he said.

Customers are the kings, and he shouldn't be too hasty to speak up for a temporary pleasure in a game.

"It can't go on like this."

Seeing that no one came to buy his noodles, Zhang Hai had no choice but to secretly change the price on the board to 5 silver coins.

"This time some people should come to buy my noodles, right?"

However, it didn't turn out as he thought, and it had no effect.

Zhang Hai could only wipe off the 5 that was just written on it, and wrote a 4 on it with a long face.

My 100% profit!

It's such a loss!

Zhang Hai felt like his heart was bleeding.