Chapter 105: Soul Coins Transaction Center
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The post by Broke_Trash also got Lu Wu thinking.
At first, Lu Wu found this post absolutely absurd, but then he gave it a second thought.
If the game Battle Online really does become famous worldwide, players from every country would choose to use their local currency to spend money in-game to exchange for soul coins. That player’s words would be true then, soul coins would become a global currency!
By thinking that way, Lu Wu realized an enormous bug in the game, too.
The game had no well-secured transaction protection system.
For example, the 500 soul coins that Lu Wu sold to Ye Xue’er back at the beginning. It was, in fact, unsafe and he could have easily been duped.
Although there were many guaranteed transaction platforms currently, their complicated procedures and long waiting periods had caused most players to choose the easy way out which was to just undergo direct transaction.
Since there are only a few hundred thousand players now, the gap in all of these transactions was not noticeable just yet.
However, if what Broke_Trash said comes true, where soul coins are used universally, the huge amount of transaction value coming in every day gave Lu Wu chills just by thinking about it.
At this point, Lu Wu immediately told Bei Li what was on his mind.
Later, the two of them started discussing how to systematize this transaction process.
After three hours of discussions, Lu Wu and Bei Li ultimately finalized the new function to be introduced into the game called the Soul Coins Transaction Center.
Though it was named the Soul Coins Transaction Center, Lu Wu was not selling soul coins on his own, it was to protect the safety of the players when they were trading soul coins.
This function’s existence equated to that of a middle-man.
Which means if Player A and Player B wanted to trade soul coins, the seller and the purchaser must first keep their cash and soul coins with Lu Wu simultaneously. Then, Lu Wu will hand them to the respective players.
With a procedure involving Lu Wu, the process would be guaranteed safe.
However, since the Soul Coins Transaction Center was now online, Lu Wu followed the old rules and added a service fee.
In order to prevent the players from feeling too burdened by the additional fees and thus choose to trade directly, Lu Wu only set the service fee at 1%.
To him, soul coins were no doubt more important than money, so the 1% was charged on soul coins instead of real coins.
Lu Wu could have chosen to take 1% from both sides, but his craving for real money was becoming less and less. After he started cultivating, he knew that he would achieve worldliness someday.
For the current Lu Wu, he just needed enough money to live on, and maybe one day he wouldn’t need them at all anymore.
But the value of soul coins would never decrease for Lu Wu even when he becomes stronger.
After finalizing the solution, Lu Wu opened a top-up path on the website and registered a virtual online account to store the player’s cash.
Lu Wu originally planned to spend another 30,000 yuan to buy an online artificial intelligence customer service bot, because the transaction value would only grow larger to which he would not be able to handle alone. However, during such a crucial time, Bei Li the all-around helper settled everything.
She copied the information of this account into the artifact directly before connecting it to the internet by a higher-powered artifact, thus realizing the real-time transaction of the players.
Through this, not only did the effectiveness increase significantly, the players barely have to wait as well. As soon as the Soul Coins Transaction Center receives the cash transfers, it would process it automatically and top-up soul coins in the players’ backpacks within seconds, while the cash would be connected to the internet by the artifact and transferred into the sellers’ accounts directly.
Right after Bei Li made sure this feature would not crash, it was implemented into the game.
Regarding this new feature, the forum was flooded by the players’ compliments.
Invincible_Loneliness: “Great! I got duped a few times trading soul coins in a group before. After that, I could only use my reputation as a guarantee to let other people give their soul coins first before I pay. But now that we have the Soul Coins Transaction Center, I won’t have to worry about this anymore~ Hehe~ Keep the soul coins separately!”
Ye_Xueer_is_the_cutest: “Great! Quick and easy, finally the officials are doing something right!”
Peppa_Boar: “Not bad~ Not bad, but I don’t understand why the Soul Coins Transaction Center has been launched already but the top-up option for soul coins is still not yet available. I’m beginning to worry if the Battle Online Corporation is going to stop operating (funny)”
Crayon_Shinchan replied to Peppa_Boar: “They’re using love to generate electricity and the power of love is never-ending. So how could they possibly collapse (funny)!”
Priest_Baiyue replied Crayon_Shinchan: “Speaking of love, I have to mention something. I remember there was once a guy named Lee Xiaoyao who asked me whether I believed in love, then I said I trust science. Because of that, this brat kept chasing after me to beat me, this son of a bitch (funny)!”
Crayon_Shinchan replied Priest_Baiyue: “Baiyue Xiu’er, sit down right now!”
Hand_Tore_Ghostie: “I feel like the game content is getting more and more exuberant. I am full of anticipation as I watch this game grow~ Way to go!”
Gold_Farmer_Monster: Cool~ “This saves a lot of time for me. The extra gaming time can be used for laboring, gonna give it a like!”
Xueli_The_Strongest: “Happy~ When I saw the analysis done by Broke_Trash, I thought of this problem already because the in-game soul coins trading had no safeguards, and the officials did not provide a way to top-up. This was indeed a snake in the grass. But I never thought that Soul Coins Transaction Center would be available the next day, gonna give a like to the officials~! Also, what about topping-up? Not gonna launch it yet? Are you challenging me to take you guys away with a Shadow Step and a Blood Slash?! (furious)”
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Other than the players’ compliments, during this stage when the Soul Coins Transaction Center went online, Lu Wu was also actively collecting all the players’ advice in the forum. He then further level-upped the functions in the Soul Coins Transaction Center by adding a Sale Mode which resembled an auction.
This meant that players didn’t have to search for buyers for the soul coins they were selling anymore. They just had to display their soul coins in the Soul Coins Transaction Center in the form of products and provide the ratio they want to sell.
Same goes to the purchasers, having this Sale Mode meant that they did not have to search for sellers anymore. When they wanted soul coins, they could top-up cash in the Soul Coins Transaction Center and find a ratio they thought was suitable for purchasing.
This had undoubtedly saved the players a lot of time. It could be said that this function’s existence had benefited both the players and Lu Wu at the same time.
Although the 1% charge was small in proportion, as long as the number of players kept increasing, the transaction numbers would grow.
When it came to the later stages, daily transaction numbers would be a source of princely income for Lu Wu.