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#132

Chapter 132 This game is completely “ruined”

Chen Mo took the report and casually flipped it open, but when he saw the final amount on the report, his entire being froze in place.

In the 9 days of holiday, Tianlong’s revenue actually reached over 3.6 million.

How was this possible?

He remembered that when he left, there was only a few hundred thousand in revenue left.

In other words, the revenue increased by 3 million in 9 days.

Chen Mo looked at the content of the report in disbelief, and gradually understood the reason.

Because of the holiday,

more people were playing games, and during the holiday period, that game blogger with tens of millions of followers was actually livestreaming Tianlong every day.

Under this series of factors,

the current online players of Tianlong Game had reached 800,000.

Among them, 400,000 were new players, and more than half of them had purchased the 10-yuan monthly card, plus the income from weekly and daily cards, totaling 3 million in revenue.

Chen Mo slumped into his seat, feeling dejected.

In one morning, he had increased salaries and improved benefits, spending only a few hundred thousand in total.

But Tianlong had suddenly brought him over 3 million in revenue.

Moreover, Chen Mo also thought of an even more terrifying problem.

That was, even if 80% of these 800,000 users purchased daily cards every day, there would still be over 60,000 in daily income.

And there would also be weekly card income every week, at least several hundred thousand a week.

Then there were monthly cards, and data showed that over half of the players had purchased monthly cards.

That meant the monthly card income alone would be around 4 million.

Adding everything up, Tianlong’s monthly income would be at least 5 million.

More importantly,

the new users of Tianlong were still continuously increasing.

If the user base increased to 1 million, 2 million…

He couldn't imagine what height Tianlong’s monthly income would reach.

This game was completely ruined!

Ring, ring, ring…

His phone rang, and Chen Mo glanced at it; it was Fang Chang calling.

“Is something wrong?”

“Mr. Chen, we here would like to ask Mr. Chen to approve a publicity budget.”

Fang Chang’s voice came from the phone.

Budget?

Chen Mo’s eyes lit up; was Fang Chang here to help him spend money? He was so considerate.

“Tell me, what kind of budget?”

“Mr. Chen, it’s like this: today, Wei Yan, Zhao Bowen, and I carefully studied Tianlong’s backend data.”

“We found that Tianlong Game has a very high retention rate, which indicates that our game is highly playable and can attract players to continue playing.”

“So we unanimously believe that we can do some promotion for Tianlong Game to let more game players know about Tianlong, and with Tianlong’s current state, it will definitely attract more players to join.”

Chen Mo’s originally somewhat relieved expression gradually darkened.

He was just worrying about Tianlong’s income, and Snowy Sky was actually going to promote Tianlong.

If they promoted it and added another few hundred thousand players to Tianlong, that would be terrible.

“Fang Chang, as a game company, the ultimate goal is still to make good games, so focus more on the game itself. Don’t bring up promotion again in the future.”

“Good wine needs no bush; as long as your game is well-made, you won’t lack players.”

After speaking, he directly hung up the phone.

Cangxue Games,

Fang Chang put away his phone and shook his head at Wei Yan and Zhao Bowen.

“Mr. Chen rejected the idea of promotion, saying that as a game company, the goal must be to make good games, and not to think about other things.”

Upon hearing this, Wei Yan seemed to have understood something.

“I think Mr. Chen said that because he is worried that we will put most of our energy into game promotion and neglect the game itself.”

“After all, the fact that Tianlong has so many players now is also due to that blogger with tens of millions of followers, which involves a certain element of luck.”

“And the most important goal now is how to digest the more than 400,000 new players who were added because of the game blogger.”

“These players all started playing during the holiday period, and at most, they’ve only played for 9 days. And 9 days is simply not enough to completely retain a player.”

“So what we need to do now is to continuously optimize the game content and completely retain those players, making them stable Tianlong players.”

Fang Chang and Zhao Bowen nodded in agreement after hearing Wei Yan’s analysis.

In Cangxue Games, if anyone claimed to understand Mr. Chen the most, Wei Yan would be first, and no one would dare to claim second.

This was probably the main reason Mr. Chen transferred Wei Yan here.

“I do have a point of view. During the holiday, I’ve been playing Tianlong.”

“I found that what currently attracts players most in Tianlong is the free trading system. Players can obtain equipment and materials by farming and then trade them freely within the game.”

“If we can maintain the current trading atmosphere, I believe it will definitely attract more players.”

Zhao Bowen suggested.

Wei Yan stroked his chin thoughtfully after hearing Zhao Bowen’s words.

“This matter is actually easy to solve. To maintain the trading atmosphere, we need to work on the tradable items.”

“Firstly, the tradable items must always be in a state of short supply.”

“Secondly, these tradable items cannot exist permanently, just like clothes; when they get old or torn, you have to replace them with new ones.”

Zhao Bowen’s eyes gradually lit up as he listened to Wei Yan’s words.

“I understand.”

“Short supply is easy to solve. I just need to set those equipment items to a certain fixed quantity. Once the quantity of these dropped equipment items reaches this limit, they will no longer drop.”

“Then I will set durability for these equipment items. Once the durability reaches zero, the equipment item will automatically be destroyed.”

“This creates a cycle, and equipment will always be in a scarce state.”

“We could also update a material that can repair equipment durability, and then put this material into world bosses to increase players’ enthusiasm for fighting bosses.”

“Of course, the quantity of this durability-repairing material also needs to be set, not too much.”

The more Zhao Bowen spoke, the more excited he became. He suddenly thought of many ways to increase the game’s playability.

He immediately left Fang Chang’s office and rushed to his own workstation, eager to start working on the plan.

……….

Cheng Lin Decoration,

Wang Yang sat at his workstation, hesitating for a long time.

Finally, he walked over to Chen Jun’s workstation.

“Brother Jun, can I come with you to take measurements these two days? I want to learn how you communicate with clients.”

“No problem, then you can follow me for the next two days. Don’t be too anxious, actually, it’s normal for a newcomer to not have orders. It’s just that your previous two orders raised your expectations too high, and the psychological gap is too big.”

Chen Jun patted Wang Yang’s shoulder to comfort him.

“Thank you, Brother Jun.”

Wang Yang thanked him again.

“Don’t mention it.”

Chen Jun had a smile on his face; he had secured two more orders recently, and his current sales could be said to have firmly secured him the top sales spot for this quarter.

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