Chapter 71 - Spreading Playerbase
As the days go by, the agreed date of a month from release inches closer and closer.
The sales of Guardian of the Holy Spring have noticeably slowed down, especially in the last two weeks, where the daily growth rate fell by 15%.
Qiu Bin was metally prepared for this as Guardian of the Holy Spring heavily depended on the support by the Emperor Dynasty gaming platform. It also took a lot of inspiration from Plants vs Zombies, which many players didn’t find interesting anymore.
Even if the quality was improved, it would never come close to the success of Plants vs Zombies.
If both games never got any support from any distribution channels, would Guardian of the Holy Spring reach the number of sales that Plants vs Zombies achieved? Most likely not.
Guardian of the Holy Spring managed to nearly double the sales of Plants vs Zombies thanks to how well distributed the game was, and Qiu Bin was more than satisfied by that.
On the other hand, the downloads for I Am MT continues to sky-rocket, with hundreds of thousands of downloads every day.
This explosive growth made Qiu Bin worry.
“Elder Sister.”
“Oh, that’s The President’s sister right? Is it strong?”
“Super strong… I could never hope to beat that level, but that guy with the Elder Sister carried me right through like was nothing.”
“Really? How do you get Elder Sister then?”
“Not sure, let me check. Uhh, it seems like it’s a gift from buying credits.”
“How much?”
“Uhh, seems to be two thousand?”
“Two thousand runes? That’s like two hundred RMB, that is quite pricey…”
“No, it’s two thousand RMB, twenty thousand runes…”
“…”
A short moment of silence followed.
“What the, what’s the problem with this guy! Two thousand RMB for one card, are they crazy?”
“All I can say is that we’ll never understand the world of the rich…”
“I don’t have anyone in my friend’s list that has an Elder Sister!”
“Of course, whales like these are few and far between…”
“Huh? My friend’s friendly aid has an Elder Sister! I’ll send him a friend request. I’ll get them if I can’t beat anything in the future.”
“What? Their friend’s list is already full!”
“…Whales are so popular!”
“I wish for a friend who has an Elder Sister!”
—
A random company, lunch time.
Two employees were playing I Am MT.
“What the! This guy I’m facing is a monster! They have an Elder Sister! I’m gonna be destroyed!”
“What can you do about that? They’re rich…”
“This company doesn’t even guarantee a level playing field! They just have their eyes set on money!”
“… I thought you knew that from the moment you started the game?”
“No! I must give it a bad review! I’m so mad that I’m still being bullied after paying over two hundred RMB!”
“… Is it that weird that you’re being bullied by someone who’s paid two thousand RMB when you’ve paid two hundred?”
“I don’t care, I’m going to leave a bad review! What a garbage game for wasting my youth and my money!”
“If you’re quitting, let me have your account.”
“Who says I’m quitting! I spent more than two hundred RMB on this! Quit trying that to try and take my account!”
“Your imagination is quite good I see!”
—
The growth of I Am MT’s player base showed no signs of slowing down.
It goes without mention that I Am MT’s friend system was one of the most classic designs, comparable to the use of alliances in Clash of Kings whereby guildmates help each other by speeding up building.
And using the most classic design sometimes achieves the best result.
I Am MT had no way of including co-op because of the design of the combat system. However, I Am MT’s friend system addresses this problem extraordinarily well.
After becoming friends, players will be able to help each other in combat. Although it wasn’t much, it was enough to attract players to add others based on how strong they are.