Chapter 52
As Qiu Bin slowly calmed down, he was surprised at what he had posted on his Weibo.
“I was being too impulsive. What’s wrong with me today? Why couldn’t I just keep it in?”
Qiu Bin’s regret was settling in, but what was done had been done. Promises were made, Weibos were posted. There were tens of thousands of fans as witnesses, so it was too late to take it back.
The news would probably be written into articles and posted by various video game media companies. When the time came, the whole video game industry might have their eyes on this incident, and it might gain even more traction after that.
“Geez, that wasn’t smart!” Qiu Bin had never been the hot-headed type. If he was still full of zeal at thirty-something, why would he make a game like Guardian of the Holy Spring?
He knew better than anyone else that his game took inspiration from Plants vs Zombies in many ways. If he had been thinking clearly from the start to end, he wouldn’t have responded to Chen Mo.
As Chen Mo’s art skills were decent now, after half an hour of sketching and adjusting, a classic character from his previous life appeared on his computer screen.
It was a silly-looking minotaur.
It looked quite cute with it’s massive head and tiny limbs. It had two massive eyes, and thick eyebrows. It was quite serious in expression, yet dumb and cute. It had tiny ears and horns, and a massive nose ring on its trapezoidal face.
This was a cute drawing of a minotaur, yet it didn’t feel childish.
Chen Mo looked at the drawing, thinking it was missing something. After some thinking, he added three dots underneath its eyes.
“Yep, that’s about right,” Chen Mo nodded.
This silly cow was a classic character from his previous life called MT!
That’s right, Chen Mo’s next game was a card game that had been popular nationwide, called I Am MT.
In his previous world, I Am MT would’ve been outdated and most people would’ve already been sick of it. However, in the parallel world, the gamers didn’t yet know the genre called “Chinese card games”.
Chen Mo was sure of the plan Qiu Bin and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had.
The play style and inspiration for Guardian of the Holy Spring was based on Plants vs Zombies, therefore Chen Mo had a certain expectation of the profitability of the game.
Even if Guardian of the Holy Spring was more content rich than Plants vs Zombies and had better promotion, the bet was still based on profit, and that type of game wouldn’t be suitable for top-ups.
If Emperor Dynasty Entertainment did decide to change the profit method, Chen Mo would only win by a larger margin.
It was only based on this pointer that Chen Mo could bet as confidently as he did.
In regards to profit-making, standalone games like that were some distance away from Chinese mobile games. This wasn’t a problem of the quality; it all had to do with how they profited.
That’s right, even if Plants vs Zombies was higher quality, with even better detail, it could never dream of surpassing I Am MT in terms of profit!
Quite often, the video game industry was just that unreasonable!