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In Dream Entertainment's official forum, a player quickly posted the 'VR Gaming Helmet Pre-sale' on the official website's homepage to the forum for other players to see.
The gaming helmet that had been hyped up was actually being pre-sold on the official website's homepage!
This piece of news spread like wildfire on the official forum. Even in the Hero's World, it was quickly spread by the gamers. The gamers who were in the game knew that Dream Entertainment had officially started pre-selling the VR gaming helmet.
In the pre-sale system of the VR gaming helmet, there was only one version of the VR gaming helmet. Shi Lei did not follow his original plan to develop two versions of the VR gaming helmet, namely the normal version and the WHDI version.
In the end, Shi Lei decided to develop only one version of the VR gaming helmet, and that was the WHDI version.
Using the WHDI wireless display technology was very effective in improving the quality of the VR gaming helmet, giving the VR gaming helmet a high-end quality.
In the pre-sale system, the VR gaming helmet's pricing had accepted Storm's suggestion. Every VR gaming helmet was pre-sold at a price of 5,000 USD.
At the same time, the VR gaming helmet's pre-sale system also stated that it needed to be used with the second-generation personal game server. It also vaguely stated that the second-generation personal game server's performance was more than 50% better than the first-generation personal game server's.
Shi Lei had already obtained the second-generation personal game server's configuration from AMD. According to the hardware's performance, the second-generation personal game server's performance was at most 20% better than the first-generation personal game server's.
However, the hardware's performance still needed to be combined with the software's performance.
Dream Entertainment had specially optimized the second-generation personal game server, especially the Hero's World, so that the second-generation personal game server would be more compatible with the Hero's World.
With the seamless cooperation between Dream Entertainment and AMD, the second-generation personal game server's performance was about 53% better than the first-generation personal game server's when running the Hero's World.
According to Shi Lei's plan, the price of the second-generation personal game server's three tiers was collectively increased by one yuan in each region.
The Excellent tier was priced at 2,000 USD and 16000 Xia yuan; the Shining tier was priced at 6,000 USD and 48000 yuan; and the highest tier, the Heavenly tier, was priced at 18000 USD and 144000 yuan.
This price adjustment was completely worth it compared to the performance improvement of the second-generation personal game server.
Storm looked at the price of the second-generation personal game server and smiled. He muttered to himself, "Shi Lei knows the rules of business. No matter how much the second-generation personal game server has improved, he can't increase the price by such a large margin.
Otherwise, the high-end players will protest against Dream Entertainment. "
The gap between the release of the first-generation and second-generation personal game servers was too short, so it was easy for the players to be dissatisfied. How could Shi Lei raise the price of the second-generation personal game servers by such a large margin?
Storm didn't check the VR gaming helmet's pre-sale page carefully. He paid 2.3 million USD with the Dreamer Online, fulfilling his promise to reserve 100 God-given second-generation personal gaming servers.
One hundred second-generation personal game servers and VR gaming helmets were pre-ordered in one go. Storm's name once again appeared on the VR gaming helmet's pre-order page, becoming number one on the pre-order rankings.
Shi Lei evilly created a pre-order ranking and list so that he could freely check the list of players who had pre-ordered the second-generation personal game server and VR gaming helmet.
Of course, in order to protect privacy, pre-ordered players could choose to hide their names and display their names in American characters.
However, most players wouldn't hide their names, right?
It was human nature to compete with others.
Hiding the list was like walking in the dark. Other than a few players who really didn't care, very few would hide their names.
After Storm had pre-ordered 100 God-given second-generation personal game servers, he clicked on the pre-order list to see how many people had bought the VR gaming helmet.
However, there were only a dozen names on the pre-order list.
Storm had heard of most of these names before. They were all super players who didn't lack money.
Blue Ocean and Priest of Sacred Light from Lijian Province had also pre-ordered second-generation personal game servers and VR gaming helmets.
Although both of them had pre-ordered God-given personal game servers, they only had one set.
Other than Storm, the other super players had only pre-ordered one set of VR gaming helmets and second-generation personal game servers. The total number of pre-orders was only 117 sets.
This pre-order number was completely beyond Storm's expectations.
According to Storm's estimation, even if the pre-order number couldn't reach 200,000 to 300,000, at least 100,000 units should be easy.
After all, Dream Entertainment and the Hero's World had a very good global reputation.
The Hero's World was a global operation. Players from all over the world were squeezed into one server. The interaction between players was very high.
How could a game with 15 million registered players and more than 10 million active players have so few pre-orders?
Storm wasn't the only one who couldn't understand. Shi Lei couldn't understand either!
Shi Lei checked the backend data. He refreshed it several times. The pre-order number of VR gaming helmets was still 117 sets. This number made Shi Lei think that there was some kind of bug in the pre-order system that prevented players from completing their pre-orders.
After Shi Lei personally checked, he received the final answer. That was, there were really only 117 sets reserved for the number of people!
A post on Dream Entertainment's official forum seemed to give the answer.
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"Black-hearted Dream Entertainment is boycotting pre-orders!"
First of all, I'm just an ordinary gamer who bought a first-generation personal game server. I'm not a gamer from another gaming company, nor am I an anti-fan who doesn't support Dream Entertainment.
As an ordinary gamer of Xia Xia, I really like the Hero's World developed by Dream Entertainment.
The Hero's World had ancient elements, wuxia elements, an ancient society with a high degree of freedom, highly intelligent characters that weren't controlled by the player, and a boundless map. I was completely immersed in it and treated the Hero's World as a second real world.
Originally, I didn't buy a first-generation personal game server. I used an ordinary computer for entertainment.
However, my love for the Hero's World made me spend all my savings to buy an Excellent personal game server.
I know that the price of an Excellent personal game server is only the price of a meal for many rich players, or even less.
However, I would like to say that the price of an Excellent Personal Game Server is equivalent to two years of my salary!
Spending two years of my salary to buy a personal game server. Am I not a huge fan of the Hero's World?
Am I not a loyal customer of Dream Entertainment?
However, in less than two months, Dream Entertainment is going to release a second-generation personal game server. Moreover, the VR gaming helmet can only be used on the second-generation personal game server. Is this discriminatory measure fair to the players who bought the first-generation personal game server?
In less than two months, they're upgrading the personal game server. Is Dream Entertainment's measure reasonable?
With such a high replacement rate, wouldn't the third generation of personal game servers be released in another two months?
As an ordinary gamer, I urge everyone to boycott the second-generation personal game server and Dream Entertainment's pre-orders.
A VR gaming helmet that we don't know about is being sold for as high as five thousand USD.
What if the VR gaming helmet is the same as the first-generation personal game server and Dream Entertainment releases the second-generation VR gaming helmet two months after its release? Should the players who bought the first-generation VR gaming helmet bear with it silently?
I'm deeply disappointed in Dream Entertainment's lack of sense of responsibility. I'll still support the Hero's World, but I'll never support Dream Entertainment!
I know that I'm not strong enough alone, but I hope that everyone can work together to fight against Dream Entertainment. Thank you!
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This post that revealed the true thoughts of ordinary gamers caused a lot of discussion on Dream Entertainment's forum.
Most of the gamers who wanted to pre-order the VR gaming helmet temporarily stopped because of this post.
The gamers who were planning to pre-order the VR gaming helmet did not pre-order it because the gap between the release of the second-generation personal game server and the first-generation personal game server was too short. Instead, they were worried that Dream Entertainment would release the second-generation VR gaming helmet two months later.
If Dream Entertainment released the second-generation VR gaming helmet two months later, what would happen to the players who bought the first-generation VR gaming helmet?
It's a good thing to have a product update, but it's not a good thing if the product update rate is too fast.
If the product update rate is too fast, it means that the product's value is too low.
It's just like the flagship phones of Android manufacturers in the smartphone market in the future. Especially San Shuang's flagship phones, the price of which plummeted so fast that people couldn't help but throw their phones away.
If Dream Entertainment released a new product two months after its release, it would take a lot of courage and faith to buy their old product!
Shi Lei also noticed the post on the forum. Shi Lei sneered at it.
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