Qiu Bin didnt expect to sell this many copies. Why? Because the target audience for this ga had significant overlap with Plants vs Zombies, and the fans of Plants vs Zombies would be on Chen Mos side!
It might not have mattered so much if there wasnt 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 ga.
Of course this ant that Qiu Bin would lose a portion of his players.
Luckily, Emperor Dynasty Entertainnt was very supportive. Under the various thods of advertising, Guardian of the Holy Spring managed to capture the attention of players who havent played Plants vs Zombies. This allowed Guardian of the Holy Spring to double the performance of Plants vs Zombies.
However, Qiu Bin couldnt say that he had this in the bag, as he had yet to check out Chen Mos ga.
It didnt take long before Qiu Bin found Chem Mos new ga, I Am MT.
He really did use the animated series to advertise for his ga. However, how does the ga play? Did it really recreate the vast universe?
Filled with his own suspicions, Qiu Bin clicked the download button.
Hmm? That cant be right!
Qiu Bin was shocked.
He realised that the ga was free!
If it was a ga that required purchase, the button wouldnt be download, but purchase instead.
Chen Mo wanted to bet on the first months profits, and he decided to make a free to play ga?
Qiu Bin was shocked as to what Chen Mo was planning.
The assistant asked, Whats wrong? Why are you so shocked?
Qiu Bin replied with disbelief, Chen Mos new ga is free to play! Free!
The assistant was also shocked, It cant be! That would make sense if the bet was on downloads, but the bet is on the inco of the first month!
Qiu Bin scowled, Free to play gas can only rely on buying credits and selling ads. But you cant make good money off that!
The assistant didnt say anything in reply, there was nothing to say that could explain the situation!
Qiu Bin looked back to his phone while trying to figure out the situation, but was t with sothing else he didnt expect.
The ga finished downloading in the ti of that short exchange?
Qiu Bin took a deeper look to find out that the ga was only about a hundred a seventy gabytes, not much bigger than Plants vs Zombies!
All the artwork for Guardian of the Holy Spring were rendered in HD, and the entire installer was about four hundred gabytes, much bigger than I am MT.
Qiu Bin was stunned. How could Chen Mo reproduce that enormous world with one hundred and seventy gabytes? It couldnt be a bait and switch!
Full of suspicions, Qiu Bin tapped on the icon and launched the ga.
After I am MT went online, despite not having a promoted spot like on the Emperor Dynasty gaming platform, it still recieved a good amount of attention.
The first players of I am MT consisted of the players from Plants vs Zombies, viewers of I am MT, as well as the bystanders wanting to see the end of the bet.
These people were coming either based on Chen Mos reputation from the last ga, coming from the story of I am MT, or just trying to stay on top of the drama.
In the end, they were t with the sa thoughts Qiu Bin had.
A free to play ga?!
Only one hundred and seventy gabytes?!
At first, a large portion of players were contemplating if they should purchase the ga. But after noticing it was free, they downloaded the ga before asking any further questions.
The ga was free to play anyways, and one hundred and seventy gabytes wasnt much. Its for the better to download first and talk later. The ga can be deleted if it wasnt fun, and they wouldnt lose anything in the process.
Chen Mo had made his own preparations, advertising the mobile ga on his Weibo as well as at the end of the most recent I am MT episode.
The mobile ga by the sa na is now live! Battle alongside MT and Shaman! Completely free, with no ads!
Of course, these were just buzzwords to get the ga out there. In the previous world, upon seeing the word free, most players would mutter the words, Another pay to win ga!
But it wasnt the sa in this world. Most players in this world were still quite innocent, and were shocked upon seeing the word free while promising no ads.
Free? The ga is free to download? With no ads? How is he going to make money?
Probably in app purchases!
How much money can you get from in-app purchases? Moreover, the players would decide if they would spend money in ga, what if the players arent spending any money?
Yeah, and Chen Mo is betting over inco in the first month, isnt this suicidal?
We shall see, its a free ga anyways.
After the bet on Weibo and the hyping up via the animations, all the gars were shocked upon seeing the word free.
So were worried that Chen Mo would lose the bet.
So didnt understand why Chen Mo would be so charitable to take a bet that he would most definitely lose.
And others were just there for the drama.
And based on that, almost everyone who had so concern in the matter downloaded the ga to find out how this free ga would work.
Inside the experience store.
In the first hour of going live, theres nearly four thousand downloads, about three tis more than Guardian of the Holy Spring. Yep, acceptable.
Chen Mo was quite happy after looking at the download statistics for I am MT.
In terms of downloads, of course a free ga would have an advantage over gas that required to be purchased. Afterall, players would have so hesitation when buying a ga, 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 troubleso to go through.
Free gas were different, downloading and deleting the ga was easy and didnt require any hesitation.
Under the sa amount of advertisent, a free to play ga would easily surpass a ga that required purchase by over ten tis. However, Guardian of the Holy Spring had the support of the Emperor Dynasty gaming platform, being able to maintain a third of I am MTs 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, its much higher than the ones promoted by the big platforms.
Wen Lingwei said, Of course. Its a free ga. Downloading it doesnt cost anything. Furthermore its only one hundred and seventy gabytes, 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 ga.
Su Jinyu was also there, and asked Chen Mo about a few numbers on the screen, Boss, what do these numbers an?
These were backend managent features Chen Mo implented. In app announcents, 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 ant.
Chen Mo said, Its not easy to explain. All you need to know is that once the numbers reach the target, this ga would start making money.
Everyone looked at each other.
Really? Is it that incredible?
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