Number One Dungeon Supplier

Chapter 61 - 65

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"What is with this vending machine? It does not seem to be selling any juice or snack bars." Jin noticed the vending machine had a countertop and a screen at the far end of the vending machine. It seemed that if you bought something from it, the countertop would split into two in order for something to appear.

"Oh this!" Yun requested for Jin's phone and she entered into an app that had the words 'Supervisor mode' on it. She then returned the phone to him and asked him to try it.

"Yes, place your phone on the centre of the vending machine to start up the machine. For customers who use this vending machine, they can pay via e-wallet or credit cards."

"I assumed cash as well right? I saw a bill acceptor for notes and coins." Jin did what was instructed, the vending machine came to life, and they waited as the machine booted the screen up.

"Yes, and it accepts other cash currencies too. Do not worry about the conversion, we have decent exchange rates and the machine can give exact change for any currency available." Yun was equally excited for this.

When the screen finally booted up, a Panda was seen carrying a cardboard box and an animation was being played. The Panda was opening a box when another cardboard box dropped from the sky. It immediately ran to the second box and tried to open it but a third box popped up from the ground. Eventually, the whole screen was filled with boxes and it entrapped the panda with a number of boxes. The animation was on a play loop but in each animation loop, the panda was at a different location and so were the boxes when they appeared.

However, despite the animation looping continuously, there was always a large red box warning indicated at the bottom of the screen. It stated that it was at the customer's own risk to spend their money on this vending machine and all goods were non-refundable through real cash. The store was not liable if they were not satisfied with their goods.

"Loot Boxes?!" Jin was taken aback, since he finally discovered the true identity of the vending machine, the name 'Panda Crates' appeared on the countertop in black and white. It seemed that the countertop acted as a screen too.

"That screen is protected by glass as strong as the one we used for the basement glass door. It can withstand any amount of weight and it cannot be broken that easily." Yun punched the countertop hard and there was no effect at all.

"This is also an interactive screen for the customers to choose which type of loot box they wish to open," Yun asked Jin to place his phone at the centre again to activate the vending machine.

The vending machine had two screens on purpose to confirm the order of the loot box when a customer wished to buy it.

"How much per loot box and what do they contain?" Jin was in a little dilemma. While he knew that the selling of loot boxes was a good monetisation plan, it might be a pitfall for customers too. Especially if the loot was be a pay to win item instead of a purely cosmetic item which had no effect in the dungeon run at all.

Having pay to win items meant that the customers might be able to receive beneficial items, which would make the dungeon easier. That would definitely spoil the dungeon experience.

While this kind of monetisation plan was mostly used for software games, he knew of certain dungeon suppliers that did this too.

However, they were not well received by the public due to the criticism that most of the items were pay to win. Hence, quite a number of customers did not really patronise their stores except the really rich ones. Therefore, in recent years, only high end dungeon suppliers provide such service to their customers.