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Chapter 601 When I was a child, I thought the world was like this

After the launch of Automated Forest, you can always see topics related to Animal Crossing on the Internet, and the most ridiculous thing is.

Upgrading your house in Animal Forest requires money. If you don't have enough money, you can upgrade it, and the arrears will become a mortgage.

Although this mortgage will not always urge players to repay, nor will it increase interest, it does not matter even if they do not repay, but if you want to continue to upgrade your house, you need to repay all the debt before the next upgrade.

Netizens commented: ‘The sprout is still the same sprout! ’

  ‘tmd, when I saw the mortgage, my heart skipped a beat! ’

'My child didn't feel any pressure on the mortgage when he was playing the game. When I saw it, I felt frightened. I thought the game would also remind me to pay off the mortgage, but I still didn't pay it back and didn't. Quite comfortable. ’

 ‘Still troubled by your mortgage loan? I fried kohlrabi and gained complete wealth and freedom. ’

  ‘Hahaha, it’s quite comfortable without any rush, and I can’t spend the extra money in the game, so it’s just right to pay off the mortgage. ’

　　‘I showed my friend the museum, and he jumped into the trap! ’

 …

 The players who are the first to land on the island continue to show off the island they have designed. Every time a picture is posted, it attracts countless casual players.

 Sales of handheld consoles are growing rapidly. Even players who don’t like casual games can’t resist the idea of ​​​​landing on the island after seeing the picture.

 ‘I just have a question, do the decorations in this game cost money? ’

　　‘What kind of **** did I play with before? I charged 980 for a floor tile. ’

　　‘Do you really not need money? For the casual games I play, new products are released almost every week. The floors are sold piece by piece. If you want to collect them all, it will cost you a few thousand a month. ’

 ‘Mom, after reading your words, I suddenly feel that there are so many rich people. ’

“To be honest, since I got involved in Sprout Games, although Sprouts games are released very quickly, I spent the least money on this game company. ’

 …

 Hearing this, some players were slightly stunned.

 A game only costs tens to two hundred yuan, and the more expensive ones may cost more than 300 yuan.

 But compared to other games where you can draw dozens of draws at 648 and get nothing, it is not a good deal to play a 3A masterpiece made with hundreds of millions of dollars for a hundred dollars.

 Some players once thought about why they like console games.

 Finally, I came up with an answer, "sincerity". Even small manufacturers who are working hard to make games can still show their utmost sincerity with games priced at tens of dollars!

Animal Crossing has a high degree of freedom. There are thousands of DIY manuals for players to collect. They can decorate their own island according to their favorite style. Chinese, English, Japanese, French... various styles can be matched at will!

 From large screen ornaments to various small ornaments to decorate wallpapers, players can choose the style they want and the items they like.

Different from those XX manors outside, the game does not require any recharge and can be obtained by picking up manuals at the beach, giving them as gifts from friends, or giving them as gifts from island residents.

You can paint the floor yourself, design your own clothes, and grow your own flowers. There are many varieties of flowers, and rare colors need to be hybridized and cultivated by yourself.

 It provides enough freedom for casual players.

 Let players who like casual games experience all the fun in one game.

“If nothing else, this game is worth it just for the museum inside.” War Eagle happily handed over the fish he caught to the owl curator of the museum.

 The curator will help her put the fish in the museum's aquarium.

 The time of the game is synchronized with reality, and the content inside cannot be collected in a short time. Just like a certain kind of fish can only appear on winter nights, and a certain kind of fish can only be caught on summer mornings.

 Here you can follow the real four seasons and experience the same spring, summer, autumn and winter in the game.

The most surprising thing for players in the game is the museum. When one of the players posted screenshots of the museum he collected on the Internet, it immediately caused an uproar on the entire Internet.

The player said that his biggest regret is that the game time is too short and he cannot collect all the items for the time being.

The players who play Animal Crossing only have envy in their eyes, because everyone knows that they will be able to collect these things sooner or later.

There are no big obstacles in the game, and there is not even any probability of rarity.

As long as you play, you will be able to collect everything sooner or later.

But in the eyes of people who don’t play Animal Crossing, the scenery here is simply shocking!

　　‘Is this a museum in the game? Are these things realistic? Why does it look a bit blurry. ’

‘The screenshots are indeed a bit blurry when posted online, but if you play with them, you can see all the details clearly. ’

‘Fun fact, those collectibles need to be distinguished from fake ones, but the fake ones can be used as ornaments and placed outside for decoration. ’

‘Hahaha, after playing Animal Crossing, I really like going to the aquarium. When I see the fish, I can name them directly without reading the introduction. I will also point to this fish and tell my friends, I have caught this fish before. ’

 ‘Then the fossil was originally such a big dinosaur? Just dig it out? ’

‘Of course not, many big ones are dug out as parts, but after giving them to the curator, they will put them in the fossil hall. If you don’t collect them all, you can still see half of the dinosaur body inside. ’

 …

 We quickly explained it to those who were curious, and recorded a video to show everyone the museum we have collected so far.

 The museum of ordinary players is empty, with only a collection occasionally placed in a certain location, and only a few fish swimming in the aquarium.

 But even so, the various collections displayed in the glass case also affect the hearts of countless people.

 At first, everyone thought that the things in the Animal Crossing Museum were drawn based on basic knowledge, but until the famous paleontologist Mr. Xing Lida forwarded a fossilized footprint picture posted by the player.

  【Xing Lida: Footprints of Apatosaurus, common in the Jurassic-Cretaceous. 】

 When he posted on Weibo that the footprints were indeed real footprint models, the players went crazy.

　　‘Isn’t this a random drawing by Germination based on a photo? ’

 ‘I’m sorry! It’s not just a random skeleton footprint! ’

 ‘I went to check the corresponding information, and the dinosaurs in it can be found in major museums! ! ’

‘This Pachycephalosaurus, with its speedy body, is very similar to the Pachycephalosaurus “sandy” collected in the National Science Museum of Japan! ’

“Look at this Parasaurolophus, I found the information. Judging from its posture, it should be a short-crested Parasaurolophus fossil that was discovered in 1961 at the Field Museum in Chicago, USA.” ’

 ‘So... I can collect all the dinosaur fossils in the world in a casual game? Can I have my own museum? ’

 …

Regarding the players' questions, Teacher Xing Lida said seriously, "That's not true. I admire it very much. The details show the effort." If everyone was just a little interested before, now they are really interested.

Different museums around the world display different things, and each museum has its own unique collection. Although most pictures of the collection can be searched online, if you don’t have this thing in your consciousness, you will naturally not search for the corresponding items. picture.

The process of playing games is more than just a process of understanding and learning for ordinary people.

Not long ago, there was a surge of digital collections on the Internet, and some digital collections were sold to sky-high prices. But here, players can become collectors and curators of a personal museum.

 The enthusiasm for the Animal Crossing Museum does not end there, and the craze has not stopped.

˜The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York forwarded the player’s screenshot.

The player who posted the picture was just a high school student who had just graduated. While waiting for the admission notice, he became obsessed with the Liver Museum.

His conditions did not allow him to go out into the world or all over the country. The time when he was collecting collections in museums was his happiest time. He even made friends in the southern hemisphere and went to other people's houses to fish. Some fish that are unique to the Southern Hemisphere catch insects that are native to the Southern Hemisphere.

After the picture was posted, he originally just wanted to show it off to netizens, just like a character in the game would hold it in his hand and put it in front of him every time he caught a fish, caught an insect, or found all kinds of novel things.

 “Caught a tarantula!”

 “Caught a wasp! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!”

　　　「I caught a mole cricket! Can you make a "coo" sound?」

 …

 Every time "you" catches something in the game, he will hold it up in front of him and show it to the player.

It's strange. He usually clicks to fast forward impatiently when playing other games, just to go faster, but now he can happily watch him lift something in front of him again and again and tell himself what it is.

 Ever since he posted his museum collection, he never expected that it would attract so much attention and be liked by so many people.

 The number of reposts in the background was flattering to everyone.

Who knows what kind of reposts he has seen recently from professionals, all of which confirm the authenticity of various details of the exhibits in the museum.

Just now, he was looking at the content in the background and jumped out of bed excitedly, picked up his phone and rushed outside to the living room.

“Mom! Mom! Look at this!” He was so excited that he didn’t even put on his shoes, so he raised his phone and rushed outside.

"What?" The mother just poked her head curiously, and her excitedly shaking hands quickly stopped, but her arms were still trembling slightly.

 He excitedly picked up his phone and showed his mother what he had just forwarded.

　　【New York Metropolitan Museum of Art: @ sproutstudio, I am very happy to see a game that can take natural history into such an important role. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, we have reached a cooperation agreement with buds.

 As one of the celebration activities, we will organize a special event for "Assemble!" Players of "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" provide approximately 406,000 virtual exhibits.

 Players can find their favorite artworks on the museum's official website and click the leaf button representing "Animal Crossing" in the sharing options to generate the corresponding QR code (this code needs to be scanned by the Sprout APP)】

 Under this copy, there are also some official photos of the actual display of virtual artworks in the game.

At the same time, he saw a forwarded message from the official sprouting page below.

 It’s just that the screen of his mobile phone is limited and he sees the latest news first.

"Mom! This is the real Metropolitan Museum of Art! He forwarded my picture of the museum!" His excited hands trembled again. At this moment, he thought of the protagonist in his game. Every time he saw something new, , and also held it up in front of him to show himself.

“This is great!” His mother also looked at the phone in surprise. She touched her son’s head and said, “Forward this screenshot to me.”

"Um!"

He quickly shared the screenshot with his mother, and then he saw his mother sitting on the sofa with her cell phone, and started poking around with the phone.

When he turned his head to look curiously, he found that his mother was sending the screenshot to his friend.

　　‘Did you see, my son’s game drawing was reposted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York! ’

He watched his mother send messages one by one, blinked, and then returned to the room with his lips pursed happily.

Two forwarded messages were sent out at the same time. Even if the players did not see the forwarded message from Metropolis, they still saw the content of the forwarded message.

 ‘Okay, okay, the old thief really makes us gamers look bad! ’

　　‘I can’t even fit these 400,000 exhibits on the grid of my island, right? This linkage is awesome. ’

 ‘The old thief is fine if he doesn’t link up, but once he does, he becomes a legend! ’

　　　‘You don’t know how shocked I was when I saw Metropolis retweeted it! ’

　　‘This collaboration is really surprising! This is a real digital museum! I can also change the collection on my island at any time, and just scan the QR code if I like it. ’

 …

Every time you donate something to the museum, you can listen to the owl curator explain the story of the thing in detail, what are the habits of this insect, and what is special about this fish.

 Understanding "living things" is not just about knowing the name of this thing and what it looks like.

 The most amazing thing is that new residents and new animals will continue to come to the island.

If many previous settings have turned the game into a "good life simulator", there are too many casual games of this kind. Some allow people to experience the world of elites and superhumans, and some allow people to become supreme leaders and business tycoons...

 But only this game allows people to experience the world and life of ordinary people.

 The most valuable thing about the game is that without the pressure of group anxiety in real society, everyone will find that ordinary life is so beautiful and attractive.

 Even working to pay off a mortgage, a burden that is extremely heavy in the real world, has become motivation and expectation for hard work in the game.

 “When I was a kid, I thought the world was like this.”

 One player’s words hit the adult players who were busy at work like bullets.

"If I could run around as much as I wanted as a child, could really make a fishing rod out of twigs to catch real fish, could really dig around with a shovel, and would not fall, feel pain, or get lost, It would be great to not go home and be scolded by my parents, but to be able to play all the time without thinking about anything."

 (End of this chapter)