Chapter 69
Qiu Bin didn’t expect to sell this many copies. Why? Because the target audience for this game had significant overlap with Plants vs Zombies, and the fans of Plants vs Zombies would be on Chen Mo’s side!
It might not have mattered so much if there wasn’t a bet, but now that there is one, the fans of Plants vs Zombies who wanted to play Guardian of the Holy Spring would wait until next month before purchasing the game.
Of course this meant that Qiu Bin would lose a portion of his players.
Luckily, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was very supportive. Under the various methods of advertising, Guardian of the Holy Spring managed to capture the attention of players who haven’t played Plants vs Zombies. This allowed Guardian of the Holy Spring to double the performance of Plants vs Zombies.
However, Qiu Bin couldn’t say that he had this in the bag, as he had yet to check out Chen Mo’s game.
It didn’t take long before Qiu Bin found Chem Mo’s new game, I Am MT.
“He really did use the animated series to advertise for his game. However, how does the game play? Did it really recreate the vast universe?”
Filled with his own suspicions, Qiu Bin clicked the download button.
In terms of downloads, of course a free game would have an advantage over games that required to be purchased. Afterall, players would have some hesitation when buying a game, even if it was only ten RMB. The players are given an option for a refund too, but that process took effort and would be quite troublesome to go through.
Free games were different, downloading and deleting the game was easy and didn’t require any hesitation.
Under the same amount of advertisement, a free to play game would easily surpass a game that required purchase by over ten times. However, Guardian of the Holy Spring had the support of the Emperor Dynasty gaming platform, being able to maintain a third of I am MT’s numbers was already quite good.
Su Jinyu, Wen Lingwei and the others had their eyes on the statistics as well.
Jia Peng said, “There are so many downloads! Oh my, it’s much higher than the ones promoted by the big platforms.”
Wen Lingwei said, “Of course. It’s a free game. Downloading it doesn’t cost anything. Furthermore it’s only one hundred and seventy megabytes, it would take no more than two minute to download even under free wifi, of course the downloads are high.”
Chang Xiuya said, “Mmm, so the key point still depends on how many people are willing to spend money in game.”
Su Jinyu was also there, and asked Chen Mo about a few numbers on the screen, “Boss, what do these numbers mean?”
These were backend management features Chen Mo implemented. In app announcements, balance changes, as well as giving out runes would be done using this system.
On the data query page, there were a few numbers, all of which were english abbreviations, such as DNU, ARPI, ARPPU, LTV, and so on.
To anyone else other than Chen Mo, these letters bore no significance. They could only guess as to what these letters meant.
Chen Mo said, “It’s not easy to explain. All you need to know is that once the numbers reach the target, this game would start making money.”
Everyone looked at each other.
Really? Is it that incredible?