Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 733: Chapter 694: The East and West Converge!

[Nudist Beach]

Technically, there’s no problem.

However, Lincoln just doesn’t get it: naturism, isn’t that just a very niche, obscure group?

When did it get to the point where it can be publicly and fearlessly promoted?

In Daxia, even the topic of sleeping naked is rarely discussed in public, let alone returning to nature, flagrantly going stark naked outdoors.

If anyone really does that, they would either be considered mentally ill, have exhibitionist tendencies, or possess some kind of shady sexual fetish like a “Master’s Task”.

He didn’t have to bother Mavis, and instead, he took it upon himself to search for information about “naturists”.

The search results were an eye-opener:

In the West, [naturism] is not at all a fringe thing. England, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands… there are nudist beaches everywhere.

Even most of them are officially recognized.

Even outside of Europe, in places like Hawaii, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, etc., nudist beaches are not uncommon.

Most notably, Spain has over 140 nudist beaches, undeniably the most in the world.

“Spain receives tens of millions of tourists each year, I wonder how many of them are attracted by these nudist beaches…”

Lincoln closed the webpage speechlessly and contemplated for a moment.

Designate a small beach, build some structures, apply an 18+ restriction, and turn it into a naturist town. This is something he and Mavis could complete in 5 minutes.

But, would allowing players to undress completely in the virtual world create any problems for content review?

Ironically, it was indeed a problem before, but just recently, it became feasible.

Cloud Dream has been working on the [Marriage Contract] and [Lover Contract] recently, and it’s not a simple matter of database integration. The tasks to be performed after the contracts are in place are the truly sensitive matters.

Lincoln specifically formed a group to work with Lorin and relevant departments to advance this project, and it hasn’t been easy to see it come to fruition.

The reason he said “basically” is because what he has received so far is a “trial operation” permit, and Cloud Dream must ensure that there are no mishaps within half a year – especially any public relations crises, in order for this document to be transformed into a permanent permit.

So allowing players to go naked in the virtual world really doesn’t present any problems right now.

The Pants-Off Party is about to see the dawn of a new day.

Of course, it won’t be just anyone, anytime. There are restrictions, and strict ones at that.

When coming up with these rules, Lincoln immediately thought of a possibility:

Could there be players who go to the world of Terraria, drink a [Potion of Gender Swap], and then strip completely naked?

— For the sake of nonsense reasons like “giving the brothers a good eyeful”.

This is not an unwarranted worry.

This kind of thing could happen during just a casual game of rock-paper-scissors in the boys’ dorm.

Whether it would happen in the girls’ dorm, Lincoln isn’t sure, but he doesn’t hold an optimistic attitude about it…

Once such incidents occur, Lincoln dreads to think what might follow…

Therefore, this feature must be strictly limited.

During the trial period of at least half a year, the limitations must be strictly enforced.

Flouting the rules won’t be tolerated.

“Right, there’s still a half-year probationary period!” Thinking about this made Lincoln rather anxious, “Let’s put this idea on hold for now.”

He filed this post into the [to be dealt with] folder, deciding to revisit it after half a year.

After all, the user volume from Spain is limited, so there’s no rush.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

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Checking the time, it was already 2 am. Lincoln quickly reviewed all the events and prepared to rest.

After all, his schedule was always steady, and he felt exhausted being up so late.

[Virtual Xiajing] was online and functioning smoothly. Everything was OK.

“Traveler of the Wind” and “Light Encounter”, both the new events and new seasons were now online.

However, these two games mainly target casual players. So, even with new events, the growth in player numbers isn’t explosive, and the curve of new players joining is very stable.

The largest player group is from East Asia who would have already gone to bed, so there’s nothing to be particularly concerned about.

“Assassin’s Alliance” was also released at midnight, and the first screening has ended.

Lincoln chose this peculiar screening time, he didn’t expect it to make big news.

Furthermore, this movie, like “Speed Chase” which premieres the day after, isn’t particularly deep or discussion-worthy. They’re purely popcorn flicks; movie-goers and fans would watch for fun and that’s it.

Lincoln had no expectations of significant box office earnings or high ratings and awards for these movies.

In the end, this movie almost has no cost, even thinking about making a loss is hard, so there’s not much box office pressure.

To a large extent, it’s being treated as a large-scale game promotional material, and being able to attract some new players would be an unexpected pleasure.

There’s not much else to pay attention to, “Battlefield’s” [Extraordinary Mode] was set to start at 8 o’clock in the morning to avoid overlapping with other events.

By then, the group from the “Battlefield” development team who had not been working overtime, would have started their regular workday.

So…

“Work’s done! Time to sleep!”

Lincoln lifted Mavis in his arms and happily announced the end of the workday.

“Alright!” Mavis waved her hands quickly, all the things around her started to dissolve and reassemble, quickly transforming into Lincoln’s bedroom.

Lincoln threw Mavis onto the bed and collapsed onto the pillow himself.

“Time to sleep, see you tomorrow, Mavis.”

“See you tomorrow, master!”

Mavis cut off the Mirage signal and Lincoln seamlessly transitioned back to his real bed, took off the headband, yawned a long yawn, and quickly succumbed to sleepiness.

He curled up on his side, quickly drifted into Dreamland.

In the virtual world, Mavis lay on an identical bed, mimicked Lincoln’s yawn and started her own “rest”.

*

When Lincoln said he was going to sleep in, he really meant it, ended up sleeping almost till noon, opening his eyes at 11:20 a.m.

He stretched lazily, but still felt like he hadn’t had enough sleep.

However, he knew that this was just an illusion caused by staying up late, and sleeping more would not improve his condition.

Reason told him that the right thing to do was to get up immediately.

But instinct urged him to stay in bed a little longer since there was nothing urgent.

“Hmm…” After an internal struggle, Lincoln thought of a solution that would fulfill both conditions—

“Work from bed”.

He propped up his pillows, reached for the tablet on the bedside table, gently tapped on the cartoon Mavis on the screen, who was still sleeping in.

But cartoon Mavis didn’t seem to want to wake up, instead, she rolled off of the center of the screen with her blanket.

The normal and traditional tablet interface appeared, apart from the sleeping “desktop pet” Mavis in the corner, the tablet seemed no different from the regular ones.

Lincoln found it rather amusing, but didn’t disturb Mavis again.

He opened his work software to see if any employees were looking for him.

If not, he planned to watch some “Battlefield” live streams to understand players’ game experience in the Extraordinary Battlefield, and would consider that as actual work.

Surprisingly, as soon as he opened the software, there were employees urgently looking for him.

And Mavis didn’t wake him up for this?

But as soon as he opened the details, he understood why Mavis hadn’t woken him up—

The person looking for him was an employee of the [Cloud Dream International Affairs Department]. The so-called “urgent matter” happened to be the “Naturist” post he had seen before going to sleep last night.

In the time he was asleep, the popularity of this post had exploded.

The previous 60k plus replies have now reached an astonishing 6 million plus!

Furthermore, the users participating in the discussion were no longer limited to Spain, but came from all over the world!

Yes, it was not only European users, but users from Australia, Asia, America… All regions had users coming in to join the discussion.

Lincoln immediately opened the post, extracted the backend information, categorized it according to the user’s country, gender, and age, and visualized the data.

In this process, he was shocked to see that even users from conservative Middle Eastern countries, including Persia which has outright banned Mirage, were in support of the original post!

Seeing this, Lincoln’s first reaction was: did he underestimate the popularity of naturism?

Could it be that the global appeal of this movement far exceeds his imagination?

But soon, a familiar name popped up, leading Lincoln to overturn this idea again—

[Yi]: well said! I strongly suggest that Cloud Dream seriously consider this player’s petition! Our hearts are with the Spanish players!

Following Yi’s comment, a large number of Daxia users surfaced, articulately expressing their hopes for Cloud Dream to establish a nudist beach in Seaside Paradise.

If you told him that all these people were naturists, Lincoln would absolutely not believe it!

He quickly realized:

Seems like, since the opening of the virtual world, the “Pants-Off Party” that has always been widespread among Daxia players, seems to have-

Converged with the Western naturists that just surfaced!