True, when JIN HO creators had leaked info about this game, they leaked few distinguishing features. including the facts that names of characters were auto generated.
Their speil was -No more of SamisSOStrong10000001, ILuvLolis, Singlewaitingtomingle@10pm, ButtsareTasty or other absurd suggestive names. No more of added numbers or special characters to your own names.No more of long long sentences masquerading as IGN - In Game Name. No more cringe worthy IGN.
But if you really want to have your own name or brand name, oops, guild name in IGN , they had another way for you. All you have to do is pay a bit extra. If you are a celebrity, even if you are a legend in e-sports, you have to pay to earn the right to name your character.
Those Celebrities and Legends faced another problem- random face generation. For people who were recognized by their faces.... yeah they paid even higher price to have their character's face nearly same as them.
SIA works, the gaming company behind game JIN HO claimed this feature was to ensure safety of real people. And this time, they had lots of data to claim the same. People let go of their inhibitions and behaved differently in games. that was the charm of playing games. VR games had brought out people's worst behaviors. Harassment of all kinds, stealing, PK-player killing everything escalated when VR games came into vogue. Even with stringent rules, strict cyber laws, bullying of various kinds continued even into people's real life.
Imagine a bully stopping you from selling a resource to others. he could PK you till you lost the levels or items or both. If he is intelligent, he would record your face, come to real world to search you IRL -in real life. then he could toy you like a cat plays with rat. You would be left wondering why you are having so much bad luck all the sudden. There had been instances where people had lost their jobs, homes, loved ones or even their own lives.
So SIA works were within their limits when they stated the character face would match around 15-20% of real person's face- just enough that you may think have I seen this person before, but not enough for real life search engines to find out the real name and address. The Celebrities and Legends had to just rage at home and pay extra for privilege of having nearly same face in the game character. You could even pay extra to beautify the image. The styling, accessories all costed extra.
[Info dump finally over. YAY!!!!!]
Maaya kept on talking for nearly an hour. This meant she could not go out anymore that evening. She pouted once after seeing the time but went to her luxury dorm apartment, no doubt , thinking of few more ways of making money.
Nia, that poor girl had to burn midnight oil to finish her work. She finished her daily routine [few hours later] and used the Helmet gaming Console for the first time.
It was made of nano silver-titanium carbide alloy material. The exoskeleton [outer covering] was hard, durable and look like normal helmet. It even had bad-ass dark black color with matte finish. Logo of SIA Works, the gaming company was over front -near the forehead.. Logo of I-NA, console making company was in the back of helmet.
The Transparent Visor was retractable. The Instruction manual said the Visor was used for charging, thus while using, it should be retracted. It was just big enough to cover the eyes, so when retracted it fitted over gaming company logo giving sort of futuristic vibe.
As soon as helmet was put on, she felt lethargic and sleepy. 'Bless you, Maaya,' she thought, 'for telling me it start it only after lying on bed.' The entry into VR was very similar to out-of -body experience. A person would feel one was hovering in vast space and had to just concentrate to go into particular place.
The first time inside the console was for verification, thus everything was dark. There was no light. only a mechanical voice asking for details and doing its job. The iris pattern, retinal scan, even brain wave scan was done. Citizen number, bank account number which she wanted to link into the game all were added and verified. The game and the console both worked on subscription basis. Monthly certain amount would be deducted automatically. If there was just minimum account in the bank, then game coins would be taken as subscription fees.
And then, there was light. Then colors bloomed. Nia was now in a verdant picnic spot, with crystal blue lake, majestic mountain nearby and emerald grass carpet everywhere inviting everyone to sit and enough colorful flowers in plants and trees. All together, a very soothing atmosphere. She could practically feel all her tensions flowing out. This place was enough to enter this VR world.
Wishing to carry this scene to sooth herself, she started video recording function. All she had to do was to say 'start video', for that function to work. She could see a tiny symbol for recording near periphery of her vision. After moving here and thre to capture the beautiful scenes, she just sat down to enjoy and thinking things like - can i get some food here; its such a good picnic spot; how good would it be if we could have all sorts of get together meetings in there.
She was wearing a brown flowing gown, reminiscent of Wuxia and Xianxia worlds. She could feel the air as it played with her long, straight black hair. She could see the ripples in her dress. [Whoa! Such realistic effect. Does that mean there can be many famous Marilyn Monroe poses?] Her flat sandals were simple. Other than a hair pin holding her hair, there was no accessory.
"Sorry for the delay! Sorry for the delay!Lets start your Journey now !" a fairy voice sounded, breaking her reverie. Nia turned around and saw a little fairy. A wuxia/Xianxia setting(based on clothes) and a tiny exquisite fairy. Then she remebered- Oh, JIN HO was mix of classic RPG games, medivial settings with magic, touches of all folklore and a big tinge of wuxia. [No doubt, gaming company wanted to capture biggest market]
The fairy was fluttering her wings and hovering around Nia. "First things first! are you happy with the looks? If you want chances, beware! I charge in lots of nectar." Before Nia could talk, a tall mirror with elaborate scroll work around it was present showing her the image of her character.[I am sure you pulled this mirror from Snow White set. the petty step-mother Queen will be most upset]