Chapter 29
“Huh?” Jia Peng was shocked. “This game is on two platforms?”
Another fellow asked, “You can play it on your phone too? What about the save file? Does it carry over?”
Chen Mo replied, “The saves do carry over, yes. You can play on your phone using the save file from your computer.”
“What? How come you didn’t mention this earlier?” Jia Peng hurriedly took out his phone and connected it to the computer and installed Plants vs Zombies onto his phone.
As the resources package wasn’t big, the installation finished in a few moments. Jia Peng launched the app on his phone and logged in using his Thunderbolt Gaming game pass. Indeed, his progress on the computer was transferred over to his phone!
Lin Mao replied, “Not bad! The overall reviews are pretty good, but the downloads aren’t super high, as the price is on the higher end.”
Chen Mo nodded. Indeed, there weren’t many who would spend twenty RMB for a small mobile game like this. However, the game’s quality was quite high, hence it was worth the price.
“After the ratings get into a good state, maybe do some promotions and sell it at half price,” said Chen Mo.
Lin Mao nodded, “Yeah, I was thinking about that. The sales will probably increase by quite a bit if I sell it at half price.”
Chen Mo looked at the statistics of Adventures of the Storm Rider on its store page.
It was sixth in the newly released games list, but it wasn’t part of the top paid games or popular games list. It was slightly obscure among the promoted new games.
The ranking and recommendations of the games on the store were basically done automatically, updating every three hours. There were also some additional calculations to filter out suspicious games that might have had their numbers artificially inflated for manual inspection.
The mobile game app store had three main categories: paid games, free games, and best sellers.
Other than that, there were smaller categories such as new games (games that have been out for under a month), classic games (games that were released more than a year ago), and categories sorted by genre (action, adventure, strategy, etc.).
Furthermore, there were a few more important promoted spots which were chosen by the system based on the data it has collected. The promoted spaces were updated daily, and it was possible for games to stay in the promoted spaces for multiple days in row.
Adventures of the Storm Rider was sixth among the new games, and received a promotional space, which was quite a good start. After the players raised its rating, Lin Mao would start a sale for half price.
So far Adventures of the Storm Rider hadn’t been out for even twenty-four hours yet, and it had around four hundred downloads with thirty-odd five star reviews. With a start like that, it was possible for it to be moderately popular during its ‘new game’ period.