Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 68

Qiu Bin doesn’t even expect to get so many sales. Why? Because the target users of his game have highly overlapped with 《Plants vs Zombies》, and the loyal players of 《Plants vs Zombies》 are all completely siding with Chen Mo!

It would have been fine if there wasn’t any betting agreement between them, but now that there is one, even if these loyal players of 《Plants vs Zombies》 wants to play 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》, they will surely endure downloading it and wait for the second month.

Due to this, Qiu Bin had naturally lost some players.

Fortunately, the channels of Emperor Interactive Entertainment is very powerful. Under its various promotion and recommendation spots, 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 had attracted many players who haven’t played 《Plants vs Zombies》. In the end, the data of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 is twice of that 《Plants vs Zombies》.

However, Qiu Bin still wouldn’t dare say that he has won and he still need to look at the new game of Chen Mo.

Soon, Qiu Bin found the new game of Chen Mo, 《I am MT》.

“As expected, he had plan on using the anime to advertise it. But, what about its gameplay? Can he really reproduce the huge world settings of the anime?”

Qiu Bin, with some doubt, clicked the 【Download】 button.

“Hm? Something is not right!”

Qiu Bin was astonished.

Because he found out that the game was free!

If it’s a paid game, then the button shouldn’t be 【Download】, but should be 【Buy】.

Chen Mo wanted to have a bet with him on the monthly turnover, but he made it free to play?!

Qiu Bin was surprised.

His assistant asked, “What’s the matter? Why are you so shocked?”

Qiu Bin looked at him, “The new game of Chen Mo is a free to play game! Free to play!”

His assistant also got shocked, “If he made it free to play, then the download will increase, but isn’t the betting is about the monthly turnover? ”

Qiu Bin frowned and thought, “If the game is free, then it can only profit from advertising or value-added services. But, it is impossible to earn huge money!”

His assistant stopped talking as he was unable to make sense of it!

Qiu Bin looked at the image on his phone screen while feeling a bit puzzled, he got surprised once more.

After two sentences, the game was downloaded?

Qiu Bin opened it to take a look, and the game has only more than 170MB, which isn’t much bigger than Plants vs Zombies!

The art resources used in 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 are all HD, and the whole game installation setup has nearly reached 400MB, which is much more than 《I am MT》.

Qiu Bin was shocked about the 170MB resources, what did Chen Mo do with the huge settings of the anime? Could it be that this work is a sheep’s head being hanged on the signboard but they actually sells dog meat? (T/N: Chinese idiom about using something good as a signboard while actually selling cheap stuff.)

With extreme doubt, Qiu Bin pressed on the icon and started the game.

After 《I am MT》 got released, although it doesn’t have the recommendation spot of Emperor Interactive Entertainment’s game platform, it still received a lot of attention.

The old players of 《Plants vs Zombies》, and the viewers of 《I am MT》’s anime, and a bunch of melon eaters who were paying attention to this betting agreement have all become the first batch of players of 《I am MT》.

Some of these people came due to Chen Mo’s reputation on his last game, some came due to the huge background story of 《I am MT》’s anime, and some were just purely new and had just came to watch the lively event.

As a result, these people also encountered the same doubts as Qiu Bin.

This game turned out to be free?!

This game is only 170MB?!

Originally, a large number of players were hesitating whether to buy it or not. But as soon as they notice that it is free, they didn’t hesitate anymore and downloaded it and played it first!

Anyway, the game is free, and 170MB does not take up too much space. And so they downloaded it first and talk about it later. If it is not fun, then delete it, anyway, it doesn’t cost a penny.

Chen Mo wasn’t idle either. He advertised 《I am MT》 in Weibo and at the end of the latest episode of 《I am MT》.

“The mobile game of the same name is launched! Fight side by side with MT and Shaman! It’s free to play, and no built-in ads!”

Of course, these are all propaganda gimmicks. If he do it in his previous world and seeing the word “Free”, most players will scoff at it, “Another money bottomless game!”

But this world is different and its players are still very simple-minded, when they see “free”, and also that there is no built-in ads, then they will be surprised.

“Free? Downloading the game doesn’t cost anything? No built-in ads? Then, how can this game profits?!”

“Value-added service”

“How much profit can you get from value-added services! What’s more, it is up to the players to decide whether to purchase value-added services or not. What if the players doesn’t buy it?”

“Yes, and Chen Mo still wagered with someone for monthly turnover, isn’t he seeking death?”

“Let’s try it first, it’s free anyway.”

After the betting on weibo and the hyping of the anime, the “free” gimmick was thrown out, and had made all the players surprised.

Some people worried that Chen Mo will lose the bet.

Some people couldn’t figure out why Chen Mo wants to do this kind of “public welfare” which seems like he is losing money。

There are also some who are watching and thinks that it isn’t a big deal.

In this way, almost all the players and viewers who are concerned about this matter had chosen to download the game to see what kind of “free” method Chen Mo had mention.

Experience shop.

“1 hour since its launched, and it nearly got 4,000 downloads. It’s three times higher than 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》, well, this isn’t bad.”

Chen Mo is basically satisfied with the download data of 《I am MT》.

In terms of download quantity, free to play games certainly have a natural advantage. After all, even if the players only spend 10 RMB to buy a game, they will still need to think about it, and although they can get a refund, they will find it troublesome and annoying.

Free to play games are different. If you want to delete it, then you can delete it without the need to hesitate.

With the same level of marketing, the download numbers of free to play game is normal to exceed that of paid games by 10 times. However, 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 has after all the support of Emperor Interactive Entertainment’s game platform, it’s pretty good that it could stabilize its amount of download to only have a 3 times gap with 《I am MT》.

Su Jinyu, Wen Lingwei and the others were also paying attention to the real-time data of the game.

Jia Peng said, “My god, the download is so high, it’s much higher than the games that was promoted by those big platforms.”

Wen Lingwei said, “Nonsense, it’s because it’s free. It doesn’t cost any money to download it, and it only has 170MB. It’s just a matter of seconds to download it via wifi. Which makes the download definitely high.”

Chang Xiuya said, “Uhm, so the key will be how many people are going to topup.”

Su Jinyu was also nearby. She pointed to some of the data on Chen Mo’s screen while feeling a bit doubtful, “Manager, what does this mean?”

This is the management backend that was specially made by Chen Mo, which is used to issue game announcements, adjusting the game’s data, sending runes, and so on.

On the 【Data Query】 page, there are several data which are all in English abbreviations, such as DNU, DAU, ARPU, ARPPU, LTV and so on.

For people other than Chen Mo, these abbreviations are just jargons, and they couldn’t guess what those mean.

Chen Mo said, “This is not easy to explain, you only need to know that as long as these figures meet the standard, then the game will profit.”

Everyone looked at each other.

Real or fake? Why is it so mysterious?