This is not a BUG, ​​this is a game feature

Chapter 25 Outrageous Game Prices

Making friends is not an easy thing.

Especially making friends in the game "Household Simulator" is not only time-consuming, but also expensive!

That's right!

After playing for half an hour, Guo Mo finally realized the true meaning of making friends, which is to give them gifts.

The more gifts you give, the more favor you will have!
Without giving a gift, just licking is useless. This crappy game is purely disgusting.

Having a heart-to-heart chat will only add one or two points of favorability, but giving a gift will increase your favorability by dozens or dozens of points.

"What a weird setting!"

After complaining about the favorability mechanism in the game, Guo Mo frowned and his pocket money was not enough.

Save money to buy props to restore physical strength and self-esteem, save money to buy various gifts... There are many places to spend money in the game, but the source of pocket money is very single.

The pocket money given by the aunt every day is regarded as a guarantee mechanism, allowing the protagonist to have a relatively stable source of "income".

But this is not enough?

Guo Mo also wanted to gain the favor of the whole class, and then take on tasks and get full rewards. This was simply impossible with just the guaranteed pocket money.

"Then go work!"

Someone on the barrage came up with an idea: "I recommend washing dishes in a restaurant. It consumes less physical energy and the salary is huge. It won't lose too much self-esteem."

"Anchor, go online quickly!"

"It's so fun to surf the Internet..."

"Where's the house manager? Hurry up and ban this guy who keeps surfing the Internet!"

Guo Mo couldn't bear it anymore. From the moment he started playing this game until now, there has been a person who has been swiping the screen in the live broadcast room and asking him to go online.

hateful!

Don't let the thieves mess with my Taoist mind.

You spend your whole day going to Internet cafes to surf the Internet. When you were a kid, you often used these words to lure your classmates into corruption, right?

"Then go wash the dishes..."

After blocking the Internet-addicted teenager who was swiping the screen, the barrage suddenly became much cleaner. In order to make money, Guo Mo decided to work in a restaurant washing dishes.

Not to mention, the barrage didn't lie to him.

The price of this game is outrageous. A mobile phone costs 9999 yuan and a pair of sneakers costs 999 yuan. It sounds expensive, right?
But a bicycle that can increase the speed of movement of characters only sells for 88 yuan, and a restaurant can earn a "huge" income of 50 yuan for one hour of washing dishes!
"These prices are outrageous. What kind of devil designed these prices?"

While controlling the character to work during school hours, Guo Mo chatted with the barrage, and the topic seemed to be the extremely abstract price level in the game.

All props related to the core values ​​​​of the game are sold at ridiculous prices, and it takes several days of work to buy one.

But props that have nothing to do with the core values ​​​​of the game and are of little use are very cheap. Like a bicycle, you can buy one after two hours of work.

"It's really outrageous!"

"A hamburger costs five yuan, and a bottle of Coke costs two yuan. It's still a big 500ml bottle. I'm jealous..."

"The prices in the game, excluding props related to numerical values, should be at an average level in the past few years."

"How can you earn 50 yuan an hour for working in the early 50s? Don't be ridiculous! I can do a job that pays [-] yuan an hour forever..."

The barrage was also discussed, mainly talking about the protagonist’s extremely exaggerated “hourly salary”.

A job that pays 50 yuan an hour is a "high salary" that is unimaginable to ordinary people today. Most people's hourly wages are lower than this amount.

"The hourly wage is quite outrageous. You get such a high salary just for washing dishes. If it were me, I would have quit school and concentrated on washing dishes."

Guo Mo joked, and then said with a smile: "But this is quite normal. After all, there are many props that need to be purchased in the game. Players will lose their self-esteem when they work, and their wages will definitely be higher."

This involves numerical balance.

Although Guo Mo doesn't understand game numerical design, he has played a lot of games, and he can see through the deep meaning behind this "high hourly salary" at a glance.

To put it simply, the background of the game is probably the [-]s in reality, and prices are also at the level of that era.

According to this logic, the protagonist's hourly wage for washing dishes should also be in line with the average standard of that era.

But the problem is... some game props, such as sneakers, mobile phones, clothes and game consoles are "bound" to core values, and players will buy them frequently.

Otherwise, if we really calculate it based on the price level, if a player goes to a restaurant to wash dishes and only has that little money a day, what game props can he afford?
In order to achieve a balance in the game, there are outrageous prices in the game such as 88 yuan for a bicycle, 999 yuan for a pair of sneakers, and 50 yuan for an hour of work.

“No matter how high the salary is, it’s not enough!”

Some viewers questioned that the props related to the core values ​​​​of the game are very expensive. Even a high salary of 50 yuan/hour is difficult to say is completely sufficient.

"So, why do you want to buy props that are related to numerical values?"

"The anchor listened to my brother's advice and went to the Internet cafe for the night after washing the dishes. With the protagonist's salary, it's no problem to live in the Internet cafe!"

"No! The protagonist is a good boy. Don't come up with random ideas. The anchor listens to me, save money honestly and then... open an Internet cafe!"

You guys deserve to die!
Guo Mo's face turned red, and he wanted to follow the network cable to find out all these barrages one by one, and then punch them to death.

It's just that you don't study hard and go to Internet cafes all day long, right?
I’ve been caught in the rain myself, so now I can’t see anyone else holding an umbrella, so I have to let [Buried Love~Xiao Mo] get caught in the rain like you and become an Internet addicted boy, right?

Guo Mo won’t be fooled!
These guys who tricked him into going online all had bad intentions.

[Burial of Love~Xiao Mo] But he is a real good boy who will not let himself down and listen to the barrage nonsense and go to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet all night long.

Work, keep working!
After devoting all his rest time to his part-time job, Xiao Mo quickly saved up a large amount of money and planned to go to the mall to spend a lot of money.

"I want to buy a game console, two pairs of sneakers, and a digital watch..."

Guo Mo, who controlled the game character to wander around the mall, carefully considered what props he should buy next to play a key role.

This money was not easy to come by. He had to wash dishes in a restaurant for a week to save up, but he couldn't spend it carelessly.

"Hey, wait a minute..."

Passing by a clothing store, Guo Mo seemed to have discovered a new world and said quite unexpectedly: "Why is there a sales department next to the shopping mall?"

It should just be a sticker!
He tried pressing the F key to interact. Guo Mo, who had no hope at first, was stunned on the spot the next second.

went in?
This sales department is not a background map, but it can actually be interacted with, and you can even enter it?
"Details!"

Guo Mo, who lamented that the game was full of details, walked up to the NPC to have a conversation at the unanimous request of the audience.

"Damn it! Can you really buy a house?"

"Zun Du, fake Du, have you made a real estate model? You are really crazy about details!"

“The average price is 4500/square meter, so cheap!”

"Please, how high can house prices be in the past few years? Besides, the city where the protagonist is located is not a big city..."

The unit price of a house is 4500 yuan per square meter, and you can only pay the full price. It is obvious that [Buried Love ~ Xiao Mo] cannot afford it, and it is impossible for any player to afford it.

"The total price for a 140-square-meter apartment is 63, tsk tsk!"

After doing some calculations, Guo Mo muttered: "Actually, if the protagonist wants to buy a house, it's not that he can't afford it. Washing dishes for 12 hours a day and being crazy for more than 1000 days is enough."

But that makes no sense.

The houses purchased in the game cannot be lived in, nor do they have any additional attributes. They are just decorations.

Just to buy a house, then give up school and wash dishes like crazy, it can only be said to be meaningless, and it also fails to meet the expectations of the parents in the game.

This is the same as Danmaku saying about surfing the Internet. In an RPG simulation game with such a high degree of freedom, you can do this, but it will be boring...

After all, the total game process is close to 10 hours. Isn’t it mentally ill to spend so much time doing a boring thing repeatedly just to buy a house in the game?

"In the second or third week, you can try to save some money and see if you can buy a house."

Guo Mo shook his head and prepared to leave the sales department: "But forget it now, I haven't even gotten through the main line!"

"Anchor, don't leave in a hurry, take another look at Building 3 of the Sales Department..."

"What happened to Building 3?"

The reminder from the barrage made Guo Mo a little curious. He controlled the character to enter the sales department again and took a look at the schematic diagram of the property.

Seeing this, he was stunned.

(End of this chapter)