Emperor of solo play

Chapter 109 - How much? (1)

How much? (1)

- Warlord Subscribers broke through 4 million users!

- Tobot Soft is making a smooth run towards number 1 in market value!

- Warlord has become more than a game one personally enjoys playing.  It is the start of a new era of gaming where playing and watching the game is integrated!

- There is a rush to invest speculative capital into Warlord. Is this company worth the investment or is it a bubble?

It had been two years since Warlord had started. Warlord was closing in on its 3rd year of service, and it was worthy of having the title of being the best virtual reality game.  Tobot Soft became the most profitable company amongst the game developers.  The amount of money made by Tobot Soft was beyond one's imagination.  The monthly fee to use the game was close to a thousand dollars, and the Users numbered in the millions. Just from the amount of money generated from the subscription fee would make anyone gasp.

On top of that, Tobot Soft's success with the V Gear series made their market value almost rival the Peach corp.  Of course, Warlord's success had coincided with the increased sale of the V Gears. The two companies had a synergistic effect on each other.

Moreover, Warlord's effect on the world wasn't limited to just that. The people who enjoyed watching Warlord was several dozen to several hundred times larger than the Warlord's user base. This created a commerce market with regards to the contents related to the game.  This market might hold a much larger potential than the market for Warlord.

This was the start of a new era.

The world was surprised and taken aback at the appearance of this new era.  However, they all had great expectations for it.

Of course, there was someone who was indifferent to the start of a new era.

‘The amount of money left after subtracting the V Gear's monthly installment, Warlord's monthly subscription fee, and the maintenance cost of the apartment...’

Ahn-jaehyun.

He was calm about the recent changes.  To be precise, he was indifferent to it. 

In truth, he didn't care about how the Warlord was changing the world. The only things that was important to him was how his presence and importance in Warlord was changing.  That was it.

Even now Ahn-jaehyun was thinking of ways to increase his presence and importance in Warlord.

‘I've gathered a lot of money…… However, it isn't even a drop in the bucket if I want to buy a level 150 Unique Item set.’

The problem that always got in the way of Ahn-jaehyun was money!

It wasn't as if he didn't have money.  The problem was the market for Items in regards to the highest level Users of Warlord was absurd.

There were a lot of investors that were sniffing around Warlord and the virtual reality game market.

This resulted in the the 30 great guilds and the Users ranking from 1 to a 100 on the front page  receiving an obscene amount of money.  It was an excessive amount of money compared to the skill and ability of some of the Rankers.

A bubble had formed.

Of course, if all the Users was swimming in money, the bubble wouldn't have been a problem.  The inflation only happened at the top.  The market for the Users outside this select group was minimally impacted by the bubble.