In a big city in the eastern United States called New York, a programmer was bored and browsing the forum.

The company he works in is not a technology company. His department in this company is the logistics department, and his task is to maintain the normal operation of the office system. In other words, it is to repair computers.

Although he really wanted to say that programmers are not computer repairers, the job is not only free, but also has a low salary. Therefore, he is also willing to work here, and when he is free, he can still run an online water forum. There are not many such good jobs in the world.

On this day, he had been playing the game for a long time last night and clicked on the forum he often went to. He casually clicked on a post and started reading it.

"As a player who has been playing video games for more than ten years, I have experienced the Atari era and the Japanese era.

I have played countless games, and gradually got tired of games that look similar and play similar games. Today I found a brand new game. I suggest everyone to play this game.

The name of this game is "The Sims". Perhaps when you see this name, you will think of the "The Sims" series on gg handheld console.

However, although the "The Sims" I mentioned was also released by Wanhu, it is not the game series on gg handheld consoles.

This is a game released on a personal computer platform. The gameplay is just like its name "The Sims".

I was really simulating my life. When I was playing this game, I seemed to see myself.

I saw that I grew up little by little, studied little by little, worked little by little, and grew old little by little since I was a child.

This game has the helplessness of life, the sadness of life, and the happiness of life.

I think this game is life.

I suggest that you can't find any good games to play and try this game.

I believe everyone will be surprised!

This is a game that is different from all previous games!”

There are also various replies below this post.

However, no one said that the poster was a entrusting person.

In this era, people who can afford to access the Internet or come into contact with the Internet are basically considered "elite" classes.

Don’t look at the person who is reading the post now, he is just a computer repairman from a large company.

But if he does not have strong professional qualities, it will not be his turn to repair the computer.

You know, although it is a computer repair company, this famous big company is not easy to enter.

Because everyone is an "elite", they speak in a targeted manner. Although sometimes they sometimes start to curse, it is also a well-founded curse, rather than a nonsense. If you see that you are unhappy, you will start cursing.

Some people question whether this game is really fun?

Some people are talking about their feelings after playing this game.

If people who were later hiding on the Internet would be able to see this forum that was so simple that it could not be more simple.

You will find that under this simple interface, the quality of reply is very high.

There are many exporters called "dry goods", but the paralyzed goods, which are very popular, have become rare creatures here. They can be described as rare.

This "computer mechanic" began to care about this game called "The Sims" when he saw the widely praised reviews above.

However, unlike others who have to queue up to buy games, he is a person who has something to do with them.

He picked up the phone, dialed a number, and asked his old classmate to leave him a copy of "The Sims".

"Do you want to play this "The Sims"? I recommend you to buy a 10,000-unit graphics card, an optical mouse and a film keyboard together so that you can get the best gaming experience."

"Are you all bundled sales like this now? You don't need to use your language to trick me. It is absolutely impossible to buy more useless things to write!"

"I'm not messing with you, I'm telling the truth.

The game "The Sims" really requires the matching things I mentioned to get the best gaming experience." The sound on the other end of the phone was very helpless.

"How much does those things cost in total?"

"One hundred and nineteen dollars, seventy cents."

"It's not expensive, so I'll buy one for me."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone and continued to read the post.

In 1992, when the "large game" was sold for more than sixty dollars, this veteran player really felt that the price of three peripherals was less than one hundred and twenty dollars.

You should know that it is the 1990s, and the unit purchasing power of US dollars is much higher than that of later generations.

In later generations, some general sales prices were at the highest price of only sixty dollars.

Compared with the most expensive games in this era, the price of paper is even lower.

Of course, this is because the cassette is no longer used, and even the CD is no longer used, but the use of digital media reduces the cost.

On the other hand, it is because once the electronic game exceeds a certain price, sales will decrease. Most players will not be able to accept this price.

Therefore, in order to "small profits but quick turnover", the publishers chose a maximum price of $60 and this conventional selling price.

However, with the increasing production costs, such a price is becoming increasingly unsustainable.

Some manufacturers chose to launch more content packages when they first started, and the expansion packages provide more game content and charge a little more money.

Players still accepted this.

However, later, the manufacturers' eating habits became increasingly ugly.

At the beginning, at least, it was launched to charge extra game content, but later it simply developed into a complete game, splitting into a semi-finished body, and multiple expansion packs and information packs for sale.

Such a dlc expansion package strategy naturally makes players complain.

But as a game developer, he is quite helpless. Who makes the production cost rise almost unlimitedly?

The repairman has gotten off work, and the big city of New York can be regarded as the most prosperous city on the entire earth.

However, no matter how prosperous New York is, it has nothing to do with him, and no building belongs to him.

He took a little distance to get the games and the accessories, returned to the rental house, and began to install these things on his computer.

He originally thought that the graphics card was something like a sound card, but when he saw it, he found that it was much bigger than the sound card.

Although electronic products cannot be worth it by weight or size, he looked at the dense circuits and capacitors above and thought that this thing might be pretty good.

As for the mouse and keyboard, his first feeling about them was lightness.

A thing worth nine-nine dollars a day is light and cheap, almost right.

However, when he turned on the computer, he found that this cheap mouse and keyboard was so easy to use!
Chapter completed!