Time pa.s.ses day by day, as it gets closer and closer to a month.
The subsequent sales growth of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 slowed down significantly, especially after two weeks, as its daily growth dropped by about 15%
Qiu Bin had been prepared for this, because《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 was completely supported by the game platform of Emperor Interactive Entertainment, while its creativity and gameplay is based on 《Plants vs Zombies》, which isn"t new anymore for a lot of players.
Even if he could make it up with quality, it still can"t be compared with the first-doer advantage of 《Plants vs Zombies》.
If both games did not have any channel supporting it, can 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 reach the sales of 《Plants vs Zombies》? The answer is likely to be no.
Thanks to the powerful power of channels, the sales of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 has nearly doubled of that 《Plants vs Zombies》, which already made Qiu Bin thankful.
As for 《I am MT》, the number of downloads is still increasing in the recent days, with over 100,000 new downloads every day.
Qiu Bin was a bit fl.u.s.tered by the increase of downloads.
“Nearly 100,000 new downloads everyday? How?” Qiu Bin couldn"t understand.
His a.s.sistant said, “This…after all, it"s free to play. This is not its real sales, you don"t need to worry.”
Qiu Bin shook his head and said, “But with more players, the number of players that would buy the value-added services will surely increase. At this speed, the number of players in its first month will reach 3 million!”
The a.s.sistant didn"t reply, as he couldn"t figure out this matter. If Chen Mo gets 3 million players in the first month, it will be more than the number of players of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 which is estimated to be about 800,000, which is nearly 4 times more.
However, 《I am MT》 is a free to play game after all. Does this justify that the downloads being high?
His a.s.sistant thought for a bit and said, “Don"t worry too much. I think the amount of downloads can be cheated. After all, the game is free, so it doesn"t cost much to download it, right?”
“What"s more, even if he has 3 million players, and 10% of the players will pay, and even if each of them pay 20 RMB, the monthly turnover will only be 6 million, which is still not enough.”
Qiu Bin nodded, it does make sense. He did not rule out the possibility of Chen Mo finding someone to cheat the download.
“Don"t worry, let"s just take a look.” Qiu Bin was a bit uneasy, and installed 《I am MT》 which he had deleted.
In the subway.
Two boys riding the subway train are about to traverse a small part of their way back to school.
A boy with gla.s.ses yawned, and took out his phone, and opened 《I am MT》 and began to play.
Another boy asked, “What game are you playing?”
“《I am MT》, you don"t play it?”
“No, isn"t that an anime? does it have a game?”
“Of course, it had just been recently launched.”
“Just launched? Is it fun?”
“Uhm, it"s not bad to kill time.”
“How much is it?”
“It doesn"t cost anything, it"s free.”
“Free? How does it earn profit?”
“Well, in-app purchases. It"s up to you whether you topup or not.”
“So is this a stand-alone game?”
“No, it"s an online game, so we can play together. Would you like to try downloading it? It doesn"t money anyway.”
“Alright, I"ll check it after I go back.”
“You can download it now. It"s less than 200MB in total, which doesn"t use too much data.”
“Okay, I"ll download it and take a look.”
A university dormitory.
Four boys in the same dormitory room are playing 《I am MT》 in the bed.
“Ah? Zhang Er, how did you change your captain? Wasn"t it MT before? How did you get Xiaoxin?”
“She"s awesome, you need to topup to get her, I tried her a bit and she is very strong!”
“Really? How strong is she?”
“This character can also carry, you can take her with you and she will do all damage in the rear.”
“f.u.c.k, that sounds so good.”
“You can try her. Invite her from your friends and see the effect.”
“I"ll give it a try. Aiya, it could! Is she better than MT for carrying? And moreover, she still have this ability where her ordinary attack is to heal hp?”
“d.a.m.n, I"ll topup aswell!”
“…calm down!”
“By the way, I saw a super strong card the other day, which is better than that.”
“Which one?”
“Elder Sister.”
“Oh, Elder Sister, is it? Is she really stronger?”
“It"s like adding wings to a tiger…I couldn"t beat one level at all, but I manage to pa.s.s it due to the Elder Sister of a great G.o.d.”
“Is it? How to get Elder Sister?”
“I don"t know. Let me take a look at the ill.u.s.tration book. Erm…it looks like you need to topup.”
“How much?”
“Uhm, it seems to be, 2,000?”
“2,000 Runes? That"s like 200 RMB. It is indeed expensive…”
“No, it"s 2,000 RMB, which is 20,000 Runes…”
A moment of silence.
“What the f.u.c.k, that man is sick! 2,000 RMB for a card? Crazy!”
“It only means that we don"t understand the world of the rich…”
“There is no Elder Sister in my friend list!”
“Of course, this kind of local tyrant must be a minority…”
“Ah? One of my friends* has an Elder Sister! I"ll send him a friend request, and I"ll find the card later.” (T/N: Friends as in available random people you can temporarily add to help you for that one particular level, you can later add them as your friend if they accept you and you can then keep on using their card.)
“f.u.c.k! The other party"s friend list is full!”
“…What the f.u.c.k, the local tyrants are really popular!”
“Looking for a friend who has an Elder Sister!”
Lunch break at a random company.
Both employees are playing 《I am MT》.
“What the f.u.c.k! There is a monster in the arena, he has an Elder Sister! I got completely beaten!”
“What are you not convinced of? They have money…”
“f.u.c.k, the game doesn"t even guarantee the most basic fairness! This is just simply for the sake of profiting!”
“…Don"t you know that already as soon as you played the game?”
“No, I"m going to put a bad review, I"m so angry! Why did I still get beaten even after I charge more than 200!”
“…You charge 200, they charge 2,000, it"s normal for you to get beaten!”
“I don"t care, I want to spam bad reviews! This garbage game ruined my youth and costs me my money!”
“Just give me your account if you aren"t gonna play.”
“Who said I won"t play anymore! I had already topup more than 200 RMB! So don"t try deceiving me out of this pit and cheat my account!”
“You have a problem with your brain!”
The player groups of 《I am MT》 are still proliferating.
It has to be mention that the friend system of 《I am MT》is a very cla.s.sic setting. It"s to the level that can be compared with the alliance members in c.o.k who help each other speed up contruction.
Using the simplest design techniques to achieve the best effect.
In fact, 《I am MT》 does not have the function to battle together with friends, because the combat system does not support this. However, the friend system of 《I am MT》 solves this problem as well.
After adding someone as friends, the players can borrow each other"s combat power. Although not much, it is still enough to lure players to add friends for these combat power.