Chapter 1309: Chapter 1176: Endure Hardship First in Real Estate Chapter 1309: Chapter 1176: Endure Hardship First in Real Estate Of course, when Lincoln did this, he also harbored a somewhat sinister thought: “I’ve been disgusted, so you all should feel a bit of that disgust too.”
The poor players only knew that something big was coming.
But they had no idea that this “big thing” might turn out to include a heap of nonsense…
The members of the [Cradle Plan] Project team knew, but they wouldn’t say a thing.
Not only would they keep mum, they even let out evil chuckles in their private group chat, ready to enjoy the show.
The players were clueless, still cheering enthusiastically over the announcements and promotional materials.
There wasn’t much to say about the announcement, it was the standard format—
A friendly greeting first, an introduction to the progress of the [Cradle Plan] over the past month, some praise for the developers’ hard work, and a thank-you to the players for their support.
Finally, it was announced that all demo versions would be going online simultaneously at six o’clock this evening, inviting players to try them out and hoping they would provide ratings and suggestions after playing.
Signature and seal applied.
Job done.
If there was anything special about it, it was the emphasized line in the announcement stating “Cloud Dream has not been involved in the design and development of any games, and all demo versions are independently designed and produced by their development teams.”
To the current players, this line represented a noble quality of not seeking recognition or credit—a broad-minded virtue.
No one considered that it might be a way of passing the buck…
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Because the promotional video for the demo session was truly fantastic!
Clips from over a hundred game demos, each getting just two or three seconds of thrilling footage, could make up a 5-minute video, but the project team had trimmed it down to three minutes.
With a mature rhythm, great music, and rich game screens, all these elements combined easily stirred the players’ hearts, making them cry out impatiently for more.
But they still needed one last bit of patience to wait another three hours.
In the meantime, Samuel came looking for him to ask whether they should take this opportunity to “explode the big news that the ‘Mirage’ software update would fully support mainstream productivity tools.”
At first, Lincoln thought it was a good idea.
After all, better to have a short pain than a long one—it was better to get all the troubles over with at once.
Taking advantage of the current global focus on stock markets and financial issues, especially with stock prices soaring and a comprehensive innovation of technology products on the horizon, everyone was excited.
Dropping this endlessly beneficial, yet potentially painful move would lessen the impact of any negative reactions.
By the time the excitement died down and people started to consider the potential troubles, it would be too late.
After all, what’s done was done.
However, just before he nodded in agreement, Lincoln suddenly remembered an issue—
Today was Friday, and in another three hours, Cloud Dream would close for the day, while in four hours, all the workers in Daxia who didn’t have to work overtime would also be off work.
If Cloud Dream announced support for mainstream productivity tools now, or even went ahead with an update…
How many companies would demand their employees do last-minute overtime tests?
The restful weekend was probably going to be ruined, wasn’t it?
Or maybe not?
Lincoln tried to think the way those corporate bosses might—
Meetings were definitely necessary, but this kind of important meeting, which might affect the entire company’s operations, had nothing to do with the hapless workers.
One had to at least be a high-level executive to attend such meetings, right?
The workers just had to wait for the meeting to conclude and the decision to be made before receiving any notices.
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Of course, some smaller companies with a better atmosphere and more understanding bosses may value their employees’ opinions and require everyone to attend meetings, but such companies usually won’t encroach on their employees’ after-work hours.
So—
Does that mean only the bosses and company executives suffer from overtime work?
In that case, Lincoln felt it was manageable.
As for the potential problem of overtime work for technical staff,
that was also easy to resolve: Announce it today, and just update and implement it next Monday.
It would also allow the Technical Department of Cloud Dream to enjoy their holiday with peace of mind.
Updating after going to work next Monday would make it possible to promptly check and fix any issues, avoiding the problem of discovering issues over the weekend without having time for repairs.
“Very good, that’s settled,” Lincoln nodded, “Let’s get the announcement out now, but set the update time for next Monday morning.”
Samuel didn’t know what Lincoln had thought during those few seconds of silence, but upon hearing Lincoln’s decision, she immediately sprang into action, coordinating with the Technical Department to prepare the release of the announcement—although the immediate update wasn’t required, technical support from the employees of the Technical Department was essential to address some of the hottest questions most concerned by netizens.
And these matters had already been prepped by the Technical Department, who had even put together a list of anticipated questions, betting on which ones would be raised.
However, right after releasing the announcement, it did give off a bit of a vibe of competing for attention, so they waited until one hour after the announcement of the [Cradle Plan] Demo event to release their notice.
It wasn’t a major widespread release across all networks like the [Cradle Plan] either.
This announcement of [Mirage to fully support mainstream productivity software] was only released on Mirage’s console-specific account—updates and maintenance of the console, hardware and software upgrades, and console giveaway information were all published here.
Eventually, by having the official Cloud Dream account reshare it, all was done.
This way, there was already enough exposure, and any following question-and-answer sessions with users could be conducted through the console account.
There was no doubt that the release of this announcement also caused a huge stir; the heat of discussion among netizens even surpassed that of the [Cradle Plan] Demo event.
Even better, the comment section was filled with excited discussions from netizens:
“Hooray!
I can finally type on a keyboard at a super large, super luxurious workstation of 100 square meters.”
“Forget typing on keyboards!
Straight up holographic panels!”
“When encountering stupid clients, can I now legally and justifiably kill my boss on the spot to vent my frustration?”
“Will my wish to be writing while petting a panda finally come true?”
“Poor thing, not daring to dream big?
I’ll work while caressing my virtual wife!”
“Wait a minute, can we use things we get in the virtual world at our virtual company?
If so, I’m going to take my automaton maid to work!”
“That’s great, I’m canceling my lease next month.
Damn, everyone works like slaves for the company, all for the leeching landlord’s profit!”
…
Of course, there were ‘far-sighted’ and ‘big-picture’ netizens who expressed concerns about issues like the bankruptcy wave of office real estate, commercial real estate, and small vendors.
Many were also worried that switching from computers to Mirage might require re-adaptation to office software that they had been using for many years, which could lead to a temporary decrease in work efficiency.
But these worries were mostly drowned out by the excited cheers of ordinary workers and small bosses deeply troubled by rent issues.
Further boosted by the surge in the stock market and the simultaneous launch of over 100 [Cradle Plan] Demo playtests, for workers, it was like hearing three pieces of great news in a row, so joyful that they simply couldn’t stop celebrating.
Those negative issues would only gain widespread attention after everyone calmed down and influential people or media began to discuss them publicly.
All of this would take time.
For Lincoln, as long as there was no strong initial pushback, his goal had been achieved.
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