The Boss Behind The Game
chapter-104

Chapter 104: The Value Of Soul Coins

Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio

After the battle on Insect Island, Lu Wu made a calculation according to the statistics and found out that the players had looted a total of 428 pieces of Derived Spiritual Rice and 1 Son of the Sea.

Lu Wu was surprised by the marvelous results.

The players’ extraordinary plan had astonished Lu Wu who was the boss behind the game. This had reconfirmed his belief that the players had infinite potential if they were allowed to develop their skills without restrictions.

There would be surprises everywhere!

However, after the battle, Lu Wu had spent precisely 200,000 soul coins to purchase unique spiritual materials. He felt as if a piece of him had been cut off due to this great amount.

But of course, the guild master who received the soul coins did not keep them only for himself.

All the participants received the rewards they deserved, enabling all the players who participated in this raid on Insect Island to reap a lot of benefits.

After this battle, it could be said that the strength of these five guilds had once again grown immensely.

The only Son of the Sea acquired was handed over to Chen Ziyu by members of the Great Dragon Guild after they had logged back online. Chen Ziyu then fulfilled his promise by passing this sole Son of the Sea to Liu Chai.

The news of this successful invasion on Insect Island had spread rapidly to the other players. While Liu Chai was now coveted by everyone, many people had also set their sights on him.

Especially Gu Yu, who had offered to pay a huge sum to acquire the Son of the Sea from him.

However, Liu Chai had firmly rejected all buyers and said that he would consume it himself in order to strengthen his talent ability.

This decision had disappointed many rich players who longed for the Son of the Sea. They felt that Liu Chai had wasted such a treasure.

Since Liu Chai wasn’t short on money, he didn’t care about that.

This battle had also made the players yearn for more similar island raids. There were pro players in the forum who had immediately set up a group called Ocean Explorers, specializing in exploring the ocean territories and mapping the areas explored before posting it on the forum as a reference for the other players.

The enthusiasm of these pro players posting about the game’s technicalities had earned Lu Wu’s admiration. In order to support their hard work, Lu Wu added a new feature to the forum: Forum Post Rewards.

In other words, as long as the posts on technicalities were acknowledged by the players, they could use this feature to reward the original poster of the forum post.

This decision was made by Lu Wu to encourage the players’ creativity, and at the same time rapidly develop the player’s skills and talent.

But Lu Wu had no idea whether the reward should be in a new type of coin or soul coins, so he posted a message on the official web forum to ask the players for suggestions.

The players’ responses were very unanimous and all of them chose soul coins.

All the players were still desperately longing for more soul coins.

A player even went so far as to post a topic on analyzing the price value of soul coins in the forum. This made Lu Wu speechless.

“Based on my data-backed calculation of soul coin value, I realized a terrifying fact…”

Broke_Trash’s original post:

“First of all, this is not a technical post. This is just a scientific analysis of an astonishing truth that was brought up by the game, Battle Online, which does not have any official top-up option for soul coins.

I shall first analyze our existing coins as compared to the soul coins for all of you.

According to the data (see graph), Dragon Nation’s commodities have an annual price increase of 2.9%. Based on this trend, let’s take five million as an example, in 10 years’ time the value will be equivalent to 3.75 million in today’s value.

But if we calculate based on the real price level, the actual prices of Dragon Nation’s commodities this year have increased by 5.4 times compared to the end of 1996. In this case, the annual increase is about 8%!

So if we calculate based on the real-time price increase, the five million after 10 years is equivalent to 2.31 million today.

But (knock on wood), if we calculate the printing speed of banknotes in our country, the annual growth rate is about 16.3%. With this, five million in 2329, which is 10 years later, is only equivalent to 1.1 million today!

At the end of the analysis, he took a deep breath and let out a horrified sigh.

A few million yuan disappeared just like that, and he wanted to cry. (Oh, my bad, I am a poor man without five million. Phew, so close to facing such a huge loss!)

Next let’s analyze our soul coins.

Since the soul coins have just been released a few months back, the extent of its calculation is not that big.

However, one thing is clear to everyone: the value of soul coins keeps on increasing. Although this is closely related to the demand of rich players, but (knocking on wood again) if you think that only the rich players are contributing to the value increase of the soul coins, then you could be very wrong.

I’ll ask only one question, have you all thought about spending money in-game?

My monthly salary is only 85,000 yuan, which is considered lower than the average income level in our country, but I’m still spending money in-game all the time and my friends are also spending cash to buy soul coins. Hence rich players are one of the reasons for the increase in the value of soul coins, but more importantly, there is a huge number of mildly rich players in the game.

Coming back to the topic of soul coins rising in their price value…

Since I joined the game ten days after the server opened, I was unsure of the earlier price of soul coins, but I’ve done a little research on that.

The price of soul coins in the first server was first successfully bid on by a player named Ye_Xueer_is_the_cutest. The initial price of the soul coins was 300 yuan.

But within only ten days, the price of soul coins had soared to 800 yuan with an increase of more than 2.6 times more than the initial value.

However, this is not the end. Although the price increase of soul coins is not that steep now, it’s approaching 1,000 yuan already.

What does this theory show? It means that even if the soul coins are left aside after being bought, this asset of yours would far surpass the price increase of our commodities.

Of course, this only holds true if the game is operating continuously (To add on, this broken game is really fun. As long as the Battle Online Corporation continues to operate, I will continue playing!)

Lastly, I am hereby attaching my price forecast which shall be validated after ten years:

Based on my assumption of this game, it will definitely become viral all over the world. If that day really comes (great warning ahead).

There will be a new universal currency in the world. Its value can even be said to increase steadily and can be used all over the world. It may also be exchanged with the currency of any country. Isn’t it astonishing! (Note: I’m not talking about a worldwide common currency!)

That universal currency will be soul coins!”

As soon as this player’s post of analyzing the soul coins appeared, it had caused a commotion among the players.

Crayon_Shinchan: “I wanted to challenge the writer but then I noticed that my knowledge was so limited, so I’ll just say that he is amazing.”

Watermelon_Taro: “My salary is only 38,000 yuan and is bordering the poverty threshold, even so I have managed to spend money in-game several times. I agree with the author on this!”

Popeye_The_Sailor_Man: “To be honest, I also have the same idea as you, but it feels kind of absurd. Anyway, I will mark this first and come back to this post in ten years.”

Xueli_The_Strongest: “It can only happen if the game goes viral across the world~ But I support this prediction, I’ll stockpile soul coins first and wait for their value to increase!”

I_Am_Not_Beili: “Haha~ I’m marking this too… we shall wait and see!”

Wand_Making_Mage: “I’m convinced by you and am ready to invest a huge sum. Please leave your address so that if I go broke I shall come and find you!”

The original author replied to Wand_Making_Mage: “Well if you happen to make a profit, will I have any bonuses? (shiny eyes!)”