Chapter 271 A large number of account providers appeared to provide account rental services
The reason why the two of them chose to come over after dinner and made an appointment at this time was because during the free play period in the store, they could play all night long.
During the free play period, from 6 a.m. to 18 p.m., that is, during the day, each person can experience up to 4 hours at a time.
But there is no time limit at night. You can play until 6 o'clock in the morning the next day.
Those who choose to play during the day can basically only play for 4 hours. In theory, although they can queue up again, as soon as they get off the plane, they will definitely not be able to play the next time, because the next two days have been booked by others.
· During the opening period of traditional Internet cafes, free play is unlimited, and some ruthless people can stay up all night.
The company doesn’t want someone to die suddenly while having fun and cause negative news in the store, otherwise it will definitely become a hit.
If no time limit is given, there will definitely be ruthless people who will occupy the seats for three days and three nights. It will be a big deal if people hang out in the store. The Metaverse Experience Center is a directly operated sub-brand of Metaverse Intelligent Controls. If there is any negative news, it will be infinitely amplified by the people who are interested.
Limited to 4 hours during the day, you can play for 12 hours at night.
It not only allows more people to experience it, but also allows addicted people to have fun during their evening leisure time.
The next day, 6 o'clock in the morning.
At this moment, a female voice came from the speakers outside the store:
【Dear customers, please be sure to take your valuables with you when getting off the plane, check the storage box to avoid losing personal items】
The time was up, Liao Ruiyang and his colleagues also had to get off the plane. They were obviously still full of enthusiasm, and they could not see tiredness after playing all night.
The two of them got off the plane, and another man who had made a reservation had been waiting beside them for a long time.
At this moment, more than a hundred experiencers got off the plane at the same time. Because those who chose to experience it all night had 100% attendance, it has now become the busiest time for the waiters in the store.
The people who stayed overnight got off the plane yesterday, but the person who took over did not get on the plane immediately.
The waiters in the store are busy cleaning the seat, doing a good job of sanitation, and replacing the padding, otherwise the other person will be hot even if he lies on it.
“The environmental sanitation and service quality are not to mention. Every time someone gets off the plane, the gasket must be replaced. As expected of a big company and a big brand, it is the standard.” Another old man waiting to board the plane couldn’t help but secretly praise it.
With such a high quality of service, it only costs 12 yuan an hour for non-members, and there are various discounts on the membership price. I immediately felt that the money spent was not a loss at all.
In the future, the quality of the brain-machine Internet cafes opened by other small and medium-sized businesses will definitely be comparable to that of the Metaverse Experience Center.
As for this liner, there are probably not a few places like the Metaverse Experience Center where a clean liner will be replaced whenever another person gets on the machine. It is good to change it once a day.
Not long after, a group of people were replaced in the more than 100 seats in the store, and the attendance rate was still 100% full.
Liao Ruiyang and his colleagues and friends walked out of the store and bought some steamed buns, steamed dumplings and other things for breakfast at a nearby breakfast shop downstairs.
The two of them were eating and heading home when Liao Ruiyang said seriously: "After the game, I have experienced playing games with a brain computer. The threshold was instantly raised ten times and a hundred times. I no longer have interest in playing computer games with a mouse and keyboard. Thinking that I won’t be able to play today and tomorrow, I can’t live this day!!"
As he said that, he opened the APP of the Metaverse Experience Center on his phone and took a look.
As expected, all free time slots today and tomorrow have been fully booked.
After a while, his colleague said: "Even if charges start the day after tomorrow, you may not be able to grab a seat. The city is now 7
family, this is the only one we have here. "
Liao Ruiyang said immediately: "This is not the point. The point is that I am now confused about how much to recharge."
At present, the Metaverse Experience Center has a recharge activity when it opens. During the three-day free period, users can get as much as they recharge for the first time. There is no limit on the amount.
Liao Ruiyang has already learned about the price of the machine.
The boarding price is 10.8 yuan/hour for ordinary members, 10.2 yuan/hour for gold members, 8.40 yuan/hour for platinum members, 6.00 yuan/hour for diamond members, and 3.00 yuan/hour for black gold members.
Liao Ruiyang said: "The black gold membership is great, it only costs 3 yuan an hour."
The colleague immediately said: "If you want to become a black gold member immediately, you have to top up 20,000 yuan at a time. If you're not a buddy, you wouldn't think about the entire black gold membership, right?"
Hearing this, Liao Ruiyang thought about it and said: "Really? Don't tell me, I really have this idea, and I have 30,000 yuan in cash. His colleagues were suddenly shocked: "Are you crazy? If you have this kind of money, you might as well just buy a brain computer."
Liao Ruiyang spread his hands and said: "You think I don't want to buy, but I just hate the lack of financial resources. I'm thinking that there is nothing wrong with the entire black gold membership. If you can't use it up or don't want to use it in the future, you can also resell it on the platform. This must be praised."
"Such a super giant company also has a guaranteed reputation, and is not afraid of making money and running away."
Liao Ruiyang became more and more excited as he thought about it. He looked at his colleagues and said: "And by recharging 20,000 yuan at a time, not only can you directly become a black gold member, but if you recharge 20,000 yuan, you will receive 30,000 yuan directly, that is, The total amount is 50,000 yuan. According to the price of a black gold membership of 3 yuan per hour, the 20,000 yuan spent is converted into 1 yuan and 20 cents per hour. "
The colleague quickly said: "Brother, don't get ahead. If you are willing to spend so much money, you might as well bite the bullet and buy one. I think so."
Liao Ruiyang shook his head repeatedly and said: "I work outside, so I don't feel safe buying such an expensive item. Besides, where can I put it in the company dormitory? Should I rent a house outside? And this thing is not small, and it is harder to move than a desktop computer. It is so inconvenient. The key is that I can't afford it now, so I can't buy it with a loan, right? "
After a moment, he made a decision and said immediately: "No more, I'll just recharge 20,000 yuan. I can sell it to get some blood anyway, so why worry about it."
So he opened the mobile APP without saying anything, entered the recharge page, and directly recharged 20,000 yuan.
Colleagues were stunned and couldn't help but said: "Brother, you are a cruel person."
Liao Ruiyang said calmly: "If it were a small workshop, I would definitely not dare to do this, but this is a sub-brand of Yuanjie Intelligent Control. It is sold nationwide and can be consumed in any city. If you don't want to use it, you can resell it on the platform to get some of the blood back. Do you still have to worry about a trade?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, that's enough. That’s 16,667 hours. An average of four or five hours a day is enough to last ten years, haha!”
After a while, Liao Ruiyang asked: “By the way, how much do you plan to top up?”
The colleague thought for a while and said, “I plan to top up 3,000 yuan.”
Liao Ruiyang immediately said: "If you don't plan to buy a brain computer by yourself in the next five or eight years, I suggest you become a black gold member. You are willing to top up 3,000 yuan, but if you top up this much money, you will not be able to immediately enjoy the price of 8.4 yuan per hour as a platinum member. You have to slowly accumulate 3,000 points. "
"But, if you directly deposit 20,000 yuan, you will immediately become a black gold member, and you will receive a gift of 30,000 yuan, which is 50% more than what you receive now. Will you settle the score?"
At this moment, Liao Ruiyang tried to persuade him to top up money.
Because he suddenly realized that he had just charged so much money, if he was not encouraged to charge a bigger amount.
Maybe he will often borrow your account from you to use the phone in the future. It’s not a big problem if you borrow it occasionally for fun, but he won’t be happy if you often borrow your account for free. If you don’t give it to him, it will hurt your friendship and call you stingy.
In fact, his colleague also wanted to recharge, but he was reluctant, and he didn’t have that much money, so it was only 18,000 yuan.
Liao Ruiyang said directly that he still had 10,000 yuan in cash and could lend him 3,000 yuan, leaving 1,000 yuan for daily expenses until his salary is paid next month.
Finally, after Liao Ruiyang's strong persuasion, he agreed to lend him money. When his colleagues and friends got involved, they also deposited 20,000 yuan and got a black gold membership.
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Afternoon, Jianing City.
“The people under my command reported that a large number of account rental services for brain-computer experience centers have appeared on the market. I checked and it was true.” Meng Qiuyan sat on the sofa in the leisure area and looked at it with a smart tablet. Then she glanced at Lu An and said: “There are many platforms such as Taobao and Jingdong. You Take a look. "
He handed the tablet to Lu An, who glanced at it and said with a smile: "Don't worry about it, just acquiesce."
On the second day after the Metaverse Experience Center opened, many account rental services appeared on the market.
Someone has discovered the business opportunity, which is to top up to get a black gold membership, register a large number of membership accounts, directly recharge 20,000 yuan for each account at a time, and obtain a total quota of 50,000 yuan to become a black gold member.
This 50,000 yuan quota can be consumed for 16,667 hours, which is about 695 days.
Then they rent an account at a price of 5 yuan/hour. In theory, they can earn an income of 83,300 yuan. After deducting a cost of 20,000 yuan, they are expected to earn a profit of 63,300 yuan. Of course, it would take 16,667 hours to make this much.
That is to say, in theory, the fastest way to earn 83,300 yuan is 695 days, which is equivalent to the card being on the computer 24 hours a day and continuing for close to two years.
In reality, it is impossible to operate 24 hours a day, and there will always be vacant time periods.
So it must take more than two years to earn 83,300 yuan.
However, for this kind of businessmen, the risk is very low. They can definitely recover the cost of 20,000 yuan in about a year, and the remaining time will be a net profit if they rent it for any length of time.
The payback period is only one year, and the profit margin will be huge after that. No matter how you look at it, it will be a good business.
And when the limit inside is overdrawn, the bare card can still be sold for money, because the black gold membership card itself is also very valuable. No matter how much you charge in the future, it will cost 3 yuan per hour.
The reason why merchant account rental services appeared so quickly is mainly due to a remote activation mechanism in the consumption mechanism of the Metaverse Experience Center.
· The operator does not need to tell the account and password to the consumer. The customer only needs to tell the operator which experience center in which city he is in, and further inform the operator of the specific numbers. The operator can select this seat and use a black gold membership to activate the machine, and then the customer who rents the account can directly board the aircraft.
Normally, ordinary members charge 10.8 yuan/hour, and non-members charge 12 yuan/hour.
However, the cost of renting an account has dropped sharply to 5 yuan/hour, which is very attractive to many ordinary consumers. After all, customers like Liao Ruiyang are definitely in the minority, and the vast majority of people will not charge 20,000 yuan at a time.
In fact, this is a loophole deliberately set up by the company to allow account leasing merchants to take advantage of it.
Because the company always makes money, if an account dealer wants to rent an account, he first needs to top up each card with 20,000 yuan in real money, which is equivalent to charging up to Metaverse Intelligent Control ten years in advance the normal consumption of one card for ten years.
This alone is enough to make a lot of money. Once you have the money, your capital utilization rate will go up.
If nothing else, the interest earned over ten years alone is a huge sum of money. This does not include the inflation rate over the past ten years. Twenty thousand yuan now is worth much more than twenty thousand yuan ten years from now.
Secondly, and what Lu An values most, is the ability to increase the number of users of the brain-computer terminal platform.
The more these dealers who rent accounts, it means that the price has been indirectly lowered to 5 yuan/hour, and then the overall attendance rate will go up. If there are more users using brain-computer terminals, the number of users will increase rapidly, which is crucial to the establishment of the digital world ecosystem.
Although this will overdraw the overall future profits of the Metaverse Experience Center, Lu An does not expect how much money the sub-brand of the Brain Computer Experience Center will make. A profit margin of 15 to 20% will be enough, or even a capital-guaranteed operation.
The little money earned by sub-brands is nothing compared to the benefits and significance generated by the entire digital world ecosystem.
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Another city, a local traditional Internet cafe.
The boss was holding a cigarette and frowning as he counted the income and expenditure bills of last month.
His Internet cafe was once the most popular place on this street. Every Friday night to the next weekend, the occupancy rate of the Internet cafe would not be less than 90%. Even young people who worked hard all night long had an occupancy rate of about 50%.
This boss made a lot of money from this, and relied on the money earned from the first Internet cafe to expand his business and open three more.
But now, the business of several Internet cafes is deteriorating. Although they have not lost money yet, their revenue capabilities are obviously not as good as before.
It's not that there is a big problem with his business, but that the Internet cafe industry as a whole is in decline.
Computers are very cheap now, and the country's overall economic development is much better than it was in 2000. If you spend about four to five thousand yuan to configure a computer yourself, you can basically play 90% of the games on the market, including many 3A games.
This money is affordable to most people.
Even today’s high-end smartphones cost seven to eight thousand yuan, or even more.
Everyone has begun to buy their own computers to play at home, and the frequency of going to Internet cafes has become less and less.
Nowadays, many people go to Internet cafes to play, mostly with a few brothers. For other reasons, many people are too lazy to go there anymore. Moreover, many Internet cafes have extremely poor sanitary conditions and are full of smoke.
This boss now also has the idea of transforming. He is thinking about whether to transform into a brain-computer Internet cafe. He has already watched the press conference of Yuanjie Intelligent Control the day before yesterday.
At this moment, his cell phone rang.
It was a call from the staff of Yuanjie Intelligent Control's offline store in this city. The boss ordered a brain-computer terminal and it has been delivered to his door.
After a while, he left the Internet cafe and returned home.
The staff sent the brain-computer terminal equipment to his home, installed and debugged it, and told him how to operate it.
As the two staff members left, the boss lay down on the computer terminal, watched the crown slowly lowering, and muttered with some suspicion and calculation in his heart: "Is this thing really as realistic as it says? I want to see how awesome it is——"