Chapter 67 – The Game is Released!Wen Lingwei reluctantly glanced at the few top cards on her account.
“I suddenly thought of a very serious problem, when the official release comes, do we need to charge money?” Asked Wen Lingwei.
Jia Peng grimaced, “Ah? Charging money? I couldn"t even get a good card even though the Manager had charge our account, doesn"t that mean that we will spend in vain?”
Wen Lingwei gave a contemptuous look, “Unlucky players, get out.”
Chang Xiuya said, “Charging money? Uhm, I can"t afford to topup. This can easily go for thousands of RMB. How much money do I need to topup in order to play at this level?”
Wen Lingwei shook her head, “It doesn"t need to be at this level. In fact, as you can see, charging 1 RMB, 10 RMB, 100 RMB will have corresponding VIP level upgrade, and there will be recharge rewards, so it"s better to directly charge some money than players who doesn"t spend any at all.”
Chang Xiuya nodded thoughtfully, “Uhm, Sister, do you mean to topup less, for example, only charging 100? I still felt…that this is a little bit expensive.”
Wen Lingwei said, “But if you think about it, there will be more than half of the players that will not charge money. So, if you charge 100 RMB, you will at least be better than most of them, right? Think about the ranking rewards in the arena, and the treasure chest you get from progressing through the levels ahead of time.”
Chang Xiuya nodded, “Yea, it seems that…we will have advantage over the others.”
Wen Lingwei said, “Right? So, we must charge even a little bit. The game itself doesn"t cost any money, even if you charge 10 RMB, it won"t be a loss.”
Wen Lingwei began to calculate carefully, how much money she can charge in order to maximize her gains and at the same time compare the cost – performance ratio.
Chen Mo interjected, “You know, the money you got from drawing the concept arts of the cards is enough to buy Elder Sister.”
Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes, “What do you mean, Manager, do you still fancy the money from my concept art, don"t you? Let me say this, there is no need to discuss it!”
Chen Mo is happy.
Chen Mo was originally wasn"t worried about the anime not being popular, nor that there will be no one to play the game, but he is worried that there will be no one who is willing to pay.
After all, the consumption concept of the players is hard to change. If most of the players are unwilling to pay for value-added services, and there are too few local tyrants to form an effective recharge stimuli for the other players, then this game will have a difficult monthly turnover.
However, after seeing Wen Lingwei"s reaction, Chen Mo is full of confidence in the profitability of the game.
After experiencing the pleasure of toping-up, most players will have a hard time to control their second recharge, and those player"s that doesn"t top-up will also get irritated to see the benefits they can get if they topup, and will try recharging for the smallest amount.
Just these 2 kinds of players occupying the total number of players is enough to guarantee the profitability of the mobile game of 《I am MT》.
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Near the game"s release time, the promotion of Emperor Interactive Entertainment of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 has also begun.
The scale isn"t overwhelming, they just gave several key recommendation spots on the platform of Emperor Interactive Entertainment, and then arranged a batch of game media to write an article about the new game trailer.
After all, this is just a mobile game, and the Emperor Interactive Entertainment had roughly estimated its profitability, and it is impossible for them to spend their money on promoting without any limit. After all, promoting requires money.
Even the recommendation spots on the game platform of Emperor Interactive Entertainment aren"t free. You need to know that if these recommendation spots are given to other better games, then they will make more money, which is equivalent to a loss.
Therefore, Emperor Interactive Entertainment disregarded promoting 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 that needs money, and just gave it several good recommendation spots.
However, in the views of the senior executives of Emperor Interactive Entertainment, these recommendation spots are enough to crush Chen Mo, an unknown game designer.
For the strategy of Chen Mo, Qiu Bin had also guessed that it was just to use the anime to enhance the popularity of the game, which is equivalent to achieving the effect of disguised marketing.
However, Qiu Bin is more confident that the anime of 《I am MT》 has not yet become a phenomenon level, and if Chen Mo"s new game adopts a buyout system, then the conversion rate of the people from the anime to game is not necessarily high.
What"s more, can Chen Mo"s new game reproduce the huge settings of the anime? Qiu Bin thinks this is questionable. If Chen Mo"s game is not well done, then the score will inevitably decline, which will affect the sales of the game.
In any case, Qiu Bin thinks that Chen Mo is fancifully seeking death.
“Forget it, just need to wait fot the game to get release!”
Qiu Bin finally checked the contents of the official version of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 and uploaded it to the App Store.
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Meanwhile, 《I am MT》 and 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》, has been released to the official App Store at the same time!
From the beginning of the betting, these 2 games carried the gazes of a large number of players, and after 4 months of continuous development, the decisive moment have finally arrived!
In addition to the official App Store, 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 was also released on Emperor Interactive Entertainment platform, and with its recommendation spot and the strong ability of Emperor Interactive Entertainment platform, the sales on the first day is rising rapidly!
The price of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 is 10 RMB, which is the same as 《Plants vs Zombies》. Qiu Bin dare not set it too high, because the main reason is that 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 did not made any innovative change to 《Plants vs Zombies》. If he sets the price to 20 RMB, then the download would be reduce and thus affect the monthly turnover.
Soon, the first hour"s download of 《Guardian of the Holy Spring》 came out, 1290!
Seeing this data, Qiu Bin was a bit relieved.
Qiu Bin"s a.s.sistant had also paid attention to the data together with him, and after seeing the data, he also smiled, “The result is very good. Congratulations.”
Qiu Bin had a smile on his face, but still said, “Don"t be careless, is Chen Mo"s new game downloaded? Show it to me.”
His a.s.sistant said, “Uhm, not yet. I"ll go download it now.”
Qiu Bin stopped him, “Forget it, I"ll download it myself.”
Qiu Bin opened the App Store and begun searching for Chen Mo"s new game.
His a.s.sistant said, “No need to worry so much, the Emperor Interactive Entertainment"s recommendation spots for you is basically worth it. This data is nearly twice as high as that of 《Plants vs Zombies》 during its released back then.”
Qiu Bin nodded, “Of course, I know about that, but this result won"t guarantee my win.”
His a.s.sistant smiled and said, “You aren"t sure yet? You are too modest. With Chen Mo"s pair of wings, he might not even be able to fly to the level of 10 million monthly turnover.”
In fact, the sales of his game in the first hour had exceeded Qiu Bin"s expectations.
If this game is twice as big as 《Plants vs Zombies》, then the sales of the first month should be about one million copies, and the monthly turnover is ten million RMB.
The monthly turnover is ten million, which already reach the first-rate games, It"s just a matter of time for it to reach the top of each list. If it get the best-selling list, then it will have the chance to charge towards the top.