Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree

Jiang Shang had not ignored network game events.

In fact, for a top-quality and well-received game like "Elf Kingdom," a first prize of 30,000 RMB didn't seem like much.

At first glance, it didn't appear to be the grand gesture Akai spoke of.

To know, those phenomenon-level games have prize pools in various international competitions that are in the millions, even tens of millions.

And sometimes, the champion could take half or more of the entire prize pool.

As for the champion, it was not an exaggeration to say they became rich overnight.

Of course, most of the players who could come out on top in various competitions were already well-known professional players, whose net worth was already significant...

Among them, some might not even care much about international prize money, possibly more concerned about the prestige and status increase brought by winning.

However, these are limited to large-scale competitions with national or even international influence.

From the first moment Jiang Shang saw this event post, he understood that this "Player War Competition Event" was completely different in nature from those large-scale events.

Judging by the description in the announcement, this seemed more like an official, organized periodic event aimed at players!

And for such a periodic event, 30,000 RMB was already considerable.

Because this amount exceeded the monthly income of the vast majority of people.

According to "Elf Kingdom's" usual approach, under accelerated thinking, generally, an event's duration wouldn't exceed a week in real life.

This duration, placed in other online games, was often just a small official event.

Awarding such a number within a week was enough to attract many people...

However, what made Jiang Shang's fingers itch was not just the 30,000 prize but also the number of awardees indicated behind the prize—

"First Prize... 25 silver players, 25 iron players, totaling 50 people!"

Jiang Shang swallowed.

If the first prize were only for one or a few people, he would have just "looked up" in admiration.

There were too many pros in "Elf Kingdom" stronger than him.

Players like Fried Tomato, Moonlight Jasmine, and Xi Hong; he didn't have the confidence to surpass them.

But now, there were full 25 spots!

With 25 first-prize slots, Jiang Shang felt he had a complete chance to compete for one!

After all, in "Elf Kingdom," at the same rank, the levels and data were still relatively vague. As long as players didn't encounter a bug like Little Xian Miao, there wasn't really a qualitative difference.

What's more, being strong didn't necessarily mean gaining more points in the war.

Thus, although only level 41, Jiang Shang believed that as long as he worked hard enough and played enough, it wasn't impossible to make a turnaround in the event and achieve better results than others!

However, when Jiang Shang saw the iron player also had a fixed number of spots, he pondered:

"Didn't expect iron players not to compete with silver players. Looking at it this way... perhaps I should have leveled up later, maybe my chances for first prize would have been higher... After all, when I was level 40, I was at the top strength among iron players."

"Of course... this wasn't absolute, since there were only a few hundred silver players, while there were tens of thousands of iron players, with ten thousand at full level, the competition pressure was absolutely incomparable."

"Hey, looking at it this way, it seems like silver players are more like the chosen ones!"

Jiang Shang chuckled.

From this perspective, it did seem like silver players had a better edge.

Not to mention...

"Second Prize 10,000 RMB, 50 silver players, 50 iron players."

"Third Prize 3,000 RMB, 100 silver players, 200 iron players."

Jiang Shang swallowed again.

"Calculating the odds, as long as I participated, the probability of winning a prize was still significant! Even winning third prize would be great; at least my living expenses for a month would be fully covered!"

Jiang Shang thought expectantly.

"Calculating it this way, the total prize pool was around four million, wasn't it? Wow... For a periodic event, it was indeed a big deal, especially considering there were only about ten thousand players across the server."

"Hmm? There's also a consolation prize? 30,000 contribution points? This wasn't restricted by rank, with 5,000 spots across the entire server..."

Jiang Shang murmured.

"Sadly, if it were when the server just opened, it would have been fine. Now, contribution points were everywhere."

Jiang Shang shook his head.

Contribution points were "Elf Kingdom's" hard currency.

During the initial beta, Jiang Shang even heard the ratio of contribution points to RMB had once reached a staggering one to one.

But, prices in any game would change...

A product was often most expensive when it first appeared; as it proliferated, it depreciated.

Contribution points were like this.

Although the exchange prices for various equipment in the exchange mall hadn't changed since release, the value of contribution points had been constantly decreasing with the increase in player numbers and level advancements...

Now, although 30,000 contribution points still held allure for players, when converted to RMB, it was only worth a bit over 100 bucks.

Moreover, it was foreseeable that with time, the exchange ratio would only get lower...

On the other hand, the housing prices in Elf Forest were soaring higher, especially in the core area of Chosen City, to an increasingly ridiculous level...

Thinking of the daunting housing prices in Chosen City, Jiang Shang sighed.

"Seriously, why should playing a game carry the pressure of buying a house..."