Chapter 209: Skins Online

"That goes without saying. At the last sports meet, I won a washing machine and a refrigerator."

The team leader said with a proud look on his face.

"Then, Team Leader, what place did you come in at the last sports meet?"

"You kid, don't ask what you shouldn't, and hurry up and get back to work."

The team leader's expression stiffened. He patted the team member on the back of the head and said irritably.

…

A few days later, at Cangxue Games, Fang Chang, Wei Yan, and Zhao Bowen were sitting in the office.

"Brother Yan, the skins corresponding to the monthly, weekly, and daily cards have all been launched. The response has been very good. Currently, the number of people purchasing monthly cards has increased from fifty percent to sixty percent—a full ten percent increase."

"Weekly card purchases have also increased from sixty-five percent to eighty percent, an increase of fifteen percent. Daily cards have also seen an increase, though not by a very large margin."

Zhao Bowen looked at Wei Yan and said with an expression of admiration.

Currently, the number of active players for Tianlong has reached as high as 2.6 million. That's right, an increase of 300,000 from the previous 2.3 million.

This is all because after reaching a cooperation agreement with Tian Ge, their game has been appearing on the homepage recommendations of Tiger Head Livestream for a period every day, leading to a rapid growth in new players over the past half-month.

Based on the current 2.6 million players, a ten percent increase means 260,000 more people have signed up for monthly cards.

A monthly card costs ten yuan; 260,000 people equals 2.6 million yuan.

With a fifteen percent increase in weekly cards, that means 390,000 more people purchased weekly cards.

A weekly card is 2 yuan; that's 780,000 per week, or 3.12 million yuan per month.

If you include the extra revenue from the daily cards, this clothing update has increased Tianlong's monthly revenue by nearly 6 million.

He was originally a bit worried that doing this with the clothing—making them too easy to obtain, so everyone has them—would make players feel the clothing was cheap and common, and thus not like it.

However, the results were surprisingly good.

Regarding this, he also looked into the players' psychology within the game.

Only then did he understand that there are currently three types of clothing in the game.

The first type is the noble clothing and the returning player clothing. These two types of clothing are out of print; new players cannot obtain them, so they are not taken into consideration.

The second type is obtained by collecting 1,000 clothing fragments. This method is extremely time-consuming, and to date, not a single person has obtained it.

The third type consists of the clothing for the monthly, weekly, and daily cards.

The method to obtain this clothing is very simple; as long as the card you purchased has not expired, you can continue to use the corresponding clothing.

Since it's simple, many people have obtained it.

In terms of rarity, it certainly cannot compare to the first two types of clothing.

But the first two—one is impossible to get, and the other takes a long time. If you want to obtain clothing quickly, you have to buy a card.

And this clothing is essentially a bonus for buying the card.

Those who were already buying cards were pleasantly surprised to see that they also got clothing to wear.

And some people who were hesitant about buying cards chose to do so once they saw the clothing.

Since it's a bonus anyway, having it is better than not, and these cards aren't expensive either.

With this mentality, the number of people purchasing the three types of cards naturally increased.

Now, some guilds have even changed their recruitment requirements to mandate the purchase of all three cards.

"As long as it's effective."

Wei Yan smiled slightly; he had long anticipated this.

In sales, there is the principle that rarity makes things valuable, but there is also the principle of good quality at a low price.

As long as the price is low enough, most people will adopt the mentality that having something is better than having nothing.

He then turned his head to look at Fang Chang.

"Manager Fang, I heard from the studio staff that your game project has been wrapped up?"

"That's right. I called you both over to talk about this."

"The new game is finished, and now it's just the testing phase left. I'll contact Tian Ge later for final testing."

Fang Chang said with an excited look on his face.

Ever since taking over this project, it has taken nearly half a year, and it's finally wrapped up.

He didn't know how the final response to the game would be, and he still felt a bit nervous.

"Um, Brother Fang, how about you let me experience it first?"

Zhao Bowen's eyes lit up when he heard this; he had long wanted to experience what the new game was like.

Unfortunately, President Chen had previously ordered that he and Wei Yan not interfere, so he only knew a little bit from the descriptions of the staff, but he didn't really understand what the game was actually like.

"Sure, it's on this computer. You can give it a try."

Fang Chang directly gave up his seat. He knew that Zhao Bowen liked to play games.

Letting Zhao Bowen experience it first would also give him a general idea of the game he had developed.

Zhao Bowen couldn't wait to sit in front of the computer and find the new game, Extreme Survival.

Entering the game, the loading screen featured an extremely intense gunfight scene, which looked thrilling.

Upon entering the game interface, two mode options appeared.

One was Survival Mode, and the other was Competitive Mode.

Zhao Bowen was stunned for a moment. He was very familiar with Competitive Mode; it should be two teams fighting in a map, and the first team to reach the required kill count wins.

But what was Survival Mode?

He had never heard of it before; what kind of gameplay was this, exactly?

Fang Chang seemed to notice Zhao Bowen's confusion and began to explain.

"Competitive Mode is not much different from normal FPS games on the market, but I've added some special competitive content: Biochemical Mode and Ghost Mode. These two modes were developed after I was inspired by biochemical movies. You can experience them in a moment."

"As for Survival Mode, it is the main feature of this game. It counts as a large-scale, multi-team competitive game. There are a total of 100 people, divided into 25 teams, battling on a very large map."

"The game background here is that one hundred special forces soldiers parachute onto this map to conduct survival training. Various supplies, firearms, medical items, vehicles, etc., are distributed within this map. Furthermore, every period of time, the survival space will continuously shrink until only the last team remains, which is designated as the winning side."

Listening to Fang Chang's explanation, Zhao Bowen's expression became expectant. Some of the modes in this game were truly novel.

He had never seen them in any other shooting game before.

Thinking of this, he couldn't wait to enter the game.

"Oh right, since you're the only one playtesting it right now, I can only set it up with 99 bots."

Seeing Zhao Bowen enter Survival Mode, Fang Chang spoke up to remind him.

"Alright!"

Zhao Bowen nodded and began the game with the 99 bots.

After a while, Zhao Bowen took off his headphones, his eyes filled with shock.

"How is it? Is this game attractive?"

Seeing Zhao Bowen take off his headphones, Fang Chang hurriedly asked.