Chapter 1329 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》 Released

The day after Qiao Liang left for his agonizing trip, 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》 was officially released!

At Chixing Studio, the designers, including Cai Jiadong, were all busy.

Even though the development and initial promotion of the game were already completed, everyone still felt quite uncertain.

This was because neither the release time nor the current public opinion environment was very good, strictly speaking.

Originally, Cai Jiadong wanted to wait until the 1st of next month to release it, as that day was a Saturday, which felt like the most suitable time.

However, under Meng Chang's strong insistence, it was released today, Tuesday, November 27th.

This timing was very unpopular; it was both the end of the month and a weekday, naturally cutting the data short.

Moreover, in terms of early promotion and public opinion, there was some heat, but it couldn't be considered good heat.

Although Meng Chang invested a lot of promotional resources, he was just tinkering with that one promotional video.

The video didn't directly mention 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》. On the surface, it was just showing everyone the difficulties of an ordinary real estate agent's job.

And the Zhujia Group's publicity stunt of蹭热度 (ceng redu, riding the coattails of a popular topic) further confused the public opinion environment.

Yes, it was confusion, not a sharp deterioration.

Because of its large size, Zhujia Group actually had a guiding and controlling effect on public opinion. Although the promotional video shot by Zhujia Group and the series of promotions that followed were criticized, they did steal a lot of the heat under this guiding and controlling effect.

Now, the focus of everyone's discussion online, whether it was positive or negative, had mostly shifted to Zhujia Group.

As for the original promotional video?

Because it wasn't extreme enough, it was gradually being ignored.

Some people even mistakenly thought that this promotional video was also shot by Zhujia Group and scolded it along with them.

As for 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》, which had been hiding behind the scenes, only a small number of core players who had been paying attention knew that it would be released today.

And many casual players were completely unaware of this.

After all, most casual players have their own jobs, and they receive too much new game information every day. With Chixing Studio's promotional plan, it's normal not to know about 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》.

But no matter what, everyone still trusted Meng Chang.

So, 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》 was quietly launched on the Doubt VR glasses game store and homepage recommendation at the relatively unpopular time of the end of the month, just as Meng Chang had hoped.

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In the evening.

Not long after Ding Xiyao returned to her rented Sloth Apartment, there was a knock on the door.

Most of Tengda's employees were settled in Sloth Apartments. Of course, many people had already bought their own houses.

As a new employee, Ding Xiyao was also assigned a Sloth Apartment as an employee dormitory.

Compared to the place she had rented before, the conditions of the Sloth Apartment were obviously much better, so Ding Xiyao moved in without saying a word.

"Hello, your package." The person at the door was a Nifeng Logistics delivery guy.

Ding Xiyao was a little surprised because she didn't remember buying anything in the past few days.

What's more, the delivery guy was dragging two large boxes and several small boxes behind him.

Ding Xiyao was a little confused. After confirming that these things were indeed for her, she let the delivery guy in.

The delivery guy first handed a small box to Ding Xiyao and then started unpacking the large boxes.

Inside the large boxes was a complete set of ROF host computers and matching monitors, keyboards, mice, and other peripherals. The delivery guy assembled them and placed them on the desk, and then debugged them.

Ding Xiyao opened the small box in her hand and found a card and an unopened Doubt VR glasses inside.

The card was written by Meng Chang. The gist of it was to thank Ding Xiyao for her help in shooting the promotional video. 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》 was officially launched today, so he sent a set of computers and VR equipment so that she could try it out if she was interested.

"Oh, this is too polite. I've already been paid for the video..."

Ding Xiyao felt a little embarrassed. It was too much!

She felt that she didn't do anything in the promotional video, and she didn't have any acting skills. She just posed a few actions and made a few expressions according to Meng Chang's requirements.

What's more, this promotional video hasn't had any effect so far, so Ding Xiyao felt a little guilty, wondering if she didn't act well.

After all, she was the only star in this promotional video. It was hard to say if it was because everyone didn't like her face that the promotional video didn't have the effect it should have.

The delivery guy quickly finished his task and left. Ding Xiyao debugged the VR glasses and prepared to experience the game.

After all, it was related to her, and they had delivered a complete set of equipment to her door, so she should support it.

The game entrance can be found on the main interface of the Doubt VR glasses, which is very convenient. After all, it's Chixing Studio's own game, so it definitely has this kind of treatment.

Pushing open a door officially started the game.

During the game loading process, an opening CG was played first.

Strictly speaking, this wasn't a CG, but a real promotional video.

Ding Xiyao was a little surprised: "Ah? Isn't this the promotional video I shot?"

Compared to the version released online, this promotional video didn't have much change. Only the game title of 《Real Estate Agent Simulator》 and the Chixing Studio logo appeared in the last scene.

The promotional video that was released online before didn't have the game title or the studio logo.

Seeing her performance, Ding Xiyao felt a little embarrassed, especially when she saw the scene of secretly wiping away tears at home. She always felt that her acting skills weren't in place.

There was no way to do it. After all, she wasn't a professional actor. Even if she acted according to the real situation, it would be difficult to express her emotions deeply and with layers, so naturally, there would be a situation where it would be difficult to infect the audience.

But fortunately, this promotional video wasn't long, and she soon entered the game scene.

Ding Xiyao found herself in a small real estate agency.

The space of the store wasn't large, and the structure was quite simple. There was only a reception area similar to a front desk, a consultation area with a coffee table and two single sofas, and some simple furnishings.

These scenes were obviously completely different from the work scene when Ding Xiyao was a real estate agent.

But thinking about it, it's reasonable. After all, this is a game, and the work environment needs to be beautified.

If it was made according to the real real estate agency store, it might discourage players from the very beginning.

There were some basic operation guides in the game. Because this was a casual management game, the operations in the game were very simple. People like Ding Xiyao, who rarely played VR games, could quickly get started.

Next, she came to the computer on the front desk, opened the files and programs on the computer screen by clicking, viewed the listings, accepted commissions, connected houses and tenants, went to the houses for on-the-spot inspections, understood the situation, introduced the characteristics of the houses to the tenants after they came to the door, promoted transactions, and finally extracted commissions.

Perhaps worried that some novice players would be at a loss, the game also very considerately used a flowchart to show the whole process, and could also display the player's progress in real-time. There was a special interface that could be viewed at any time.

For Ding Xiyao, whose former profession was a real estate agent, this whole set of procedures was too easy to understand. She was so familiar with it that she could play it smoothly without these prompts at all.

Ding Xiyao used the controller to simulate her hands and dragged the computer screen in the game. She quickly determined the house type and target customer.

Because it was the early stage of the game, Ding Xiyao's listings were very limited. There were only three sets, and these house types had some "inherent flaws."

One set was too small, one didn't face south and lacked light, and one wasn't transparent enough.

After thinking about it, Ding Xiyao chose the last set. At least this defect was relatively acceptable.

I have to say that this game is quite kind. Players only need to choose the one they are most satisfied with among the three sets, and the other two sets can be ignored.

According to the game's setting, this housing resource library is shared, which is equivalent to the other two sets of houses being arranged for other agents.

In reality, Ding Xiyao often encountered old houses that had problems everywhere and couldn't be rented out for a long time. In this case, the store still had to try every means to rent them out.

Whether it was lowering the price or忽悠 (hū you, coaxing), in short, at this time, it all depended on each person's abilities. Some agents, under the pressure of performance, inevitably started to use crooked ideas and used some less-than-honorable methods.

Determining the house type was only the first step. Next, she had to choose a customer and conduct an on-site inspection in advance.

There were many customers to choose from in the game's computer. There were people who lived alone, and there were friends or couples who rented together. Their ages, incomes, and other factors were different.

Different customers have different degrees of pickiness about the house and different points of focus.

For example, some young people hardly cook, and they all order takeout, so the small kitchen of the house is not a disadvantage at all, because they don't need it anyway; but for some people who like to cook, a small or broken kitchen is difficult to accept.

After considering it, Ding Xiyao chose three groups of customers.

This was also a rigid rule of the game mechanism. Each house can choose up to three groups of customers. If none of them are successful, the mission is considered a failure. If more than one group of customers is successful, the two sides will increase the price with each other, increasing the agent's commission.

This is also different from reality and is obviously for gameplay considerations.

Of course, this may also be because it is currently in the early stage of the game, the novice experience stage, so various systems and gameplay have been simplified to a certain extent, so that novices can quickly get started.

In the future, as the game progresses, there may be some more difficult tasks, and the corresponding restrictions should be gradually lifted.

The three groups of customers that Ding Xiyao chose were a young couple who had just graduated and started looking for a job, a white-collar worker who had been working for several years and had a relatively high income, and two girls who had been working for more than a year and were normally changing houses.

Of course, the system also noted some of their detailed requirements, such as the young couple needing to cook, and the two girls having a cat.

These three groups of people were some relatively high-quality tenants that Ding Xiyao subconsciously chose, so the possibility of a transaction would be higher.

Of course, these three groups of customers also focused on different aspects of the house, which required some improvisation.

After selecting these contents, she could set off for an on-site inspection of the house.

Before, she had only looked at the floor plan of the house on the computer and saw some problems with the house type, but many details had to be known through on-site inspections.

After the on-site inspection, she had to meet the customers, introduce the house, answer the customers' questions, and promote the transaction.

Ding Xiyao pushed open the door of the real estate agency, and the camera quickly zoomed in and moved to the target residential area.

I have to catch a train in the afternoon, so the time for the second chapter is uncertain, and I may not have time to write it. I will make it up in two days.