At this moment, no one knows exactly how many players around the world were waiting right on time for the release of Subnautica.
It was eight o'clock in U.S.A time. In other countries, it might already be late at night or the early hours of the morning.
But none of that could stop the players' enthusiasm. One after another, they set their alarms and woke up right before this moment.
The moment the game went live, players began frantically clicking their mice and buying like crazy!
For a time, the number of people trying to purchase was simply too high, which caused the Steam platform to show signs of lag.
Players who got hit by the lag kept cursing nonstop, while those who managed to complete their payments jumped for joy on the spot and quickly started downloading the game.
At the same time, whether it was the Twitch or the overseas platforms like Douyu and Huya, every single one of them instantly became lively.
All the streamers' enthusiasm for broadcasting was higher than ever before, and the game they were all streaming was, without exception, Subnautica!
At this moment, other games like League of Legends and Counter-Strike seemed utterly insignificant in front of Subnautica.
CaseOh, xQc, IShowSpeed, and the others all had looks of immense anticipation on their faces. After downloading the game, they put on their haptic suits, launched it, and entered another mysterious and unfamiliar alien world.
First came the thrilling opening animation of falling from ten thousand meters in the air, then they took in the vast and majestic ocean and witnessed the enormous scale and grandeur of the Aurora.
Then, the Gaia AI appeared.
It was here that the game experience diverged between overseas players and domestic players.
Subnautica supported over fifty languages worldwide, but Lucien had not given Gaia different language options for her voice lines.
This meant Chang'e would only speak English.
Of course, Lucien had still prepared measures for overseas players. Every time Gaia spoke, corresponding subtitles would pop up at the bottom of the screen to ensure overseas players could understand what she was saying.
However, actually communicating with Gaia was out of the question. At present, the Gaia AI only accepted English dialogue.
Therefore, overseas players could only passively listen to Gaia's instructions and could not interact with her by speaking like domestic players could.
This would not affect overseas players' ability to experience the game's story (Lucien had set it so Gaia would actively guide players through the game), but it greatly reduced a lot of the fun factor.
In other words, communicating with the Gaia's AI was a benefit exclusive to American players and other english speaker!
What could the overseas players say about that?
Even if they couldn't talk to Gaia, every other aspect of the game was still incredibly attractive to them!
Although it was a shame, they still had to keep playing!
After that came the first test that gave both domestic and overseas players a headache.
It was learning how to swim underwater.
You had to master swimming first before you could survive in this vast ocean.
For a time, players all over the world let out more or less the same exclamations.
"Learning to swim is way too hard!"
"Gaia my wife, can you slow down? I didn't catch that."
"So damn tiring, but for the sake of continuing to explore an alien planet, I'll endure it!"
"Mom, see? This really is a swimming simulator, right?!"
For a while, whether it was streamers or ordinary players, the more than one hundred thousand people online in Subnautica were mostly all bitterly studying how to swim under the guidance of the Chang'e AI.
One could imagine that in the days to come, New World would make a tremendous contribution to the popularization of swimming among people all over the world.
Back at home, watching the game sales numbers climbing steadily in the backend and listening to the constant bank notifications coming in on his phone, both Lucien and Jenny had grown somewhat numb to it.
Forget it. They couldn't keep staring at this. They needed to find something else to do, or they would really be overwhelmed by the money.
Jenny first opened up the Twitch live platform and took a look, then she was startled.
The twitch categories had basically lost all meaning, because no matter which section you clicked, everyone was streaming the exact same game.
Even in the dance section, those top-tier hot female streamers had all switched over to playing Subnautica.
"No way. I have to go play too, or my game progress might get left behind by everyone else!!"
"By then the viewers will all go watch other people and stop watching me!"
Jenny shouted, then stopped staring at the computer for sales numbers and quickly ran back to her bedroom.
"Heh, I hope you don't get crushed by the later parts of the story," Lucien murmured with a slight smile as he watched her back.
He couldn't be bothered to keep checking the sales either, so he quietly walked over to the VR platform.
Actually, while making Subnautica, Lucien had also developed another game just for himself to play.
Might as well play it now and relax a bit.
Treasure of Nadia, activate! [TL/N: Porno game.]
After returning to her bedroom, Jenny immediately started her live stream. She hadn't expected the viewers to still be this enthusiastic. The moment she went live, the entire screen was flooded with a full barrage of comments.
"What the heck, how come there are still so many people watching my stream!" Jenny said in confusion. "What are you all doing here? Go buy Subnautica already!"
[Cough cough, Jenny makes it sound so easy. I want to, but I'm a student and I don't have the money right now.]
[Sigh, I'm on the night shift so I can't play!]
[I already asked my mom to buy it today, but she insists on waiting until next week. So annoying.]
↳ [Lil nigga, gimme your cashapp i'll send you 100 bucks.]
↳ [Really? Thanks alot. xxxxxxxxx]
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