Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by Coldtaco
Edited by Aelryinth
Even the video ga dia companies were shocked by the numberd. This included a lot of people who didn’t get a good night’s sleep.
Why? Trying to finish the script, of course!
The first day’s sales went from a thousand, to five thousand, and ten thousand, then twenty thousand. The script couldn’t be the sa when the numbers were that different!
The dia thought that the first day of sales would be around eight to ten thousand, as they thought Plants vs Zombies was a casual puzzle ga, which always had a smaller audience. It would gain a lot of players in the first few hours from Weibo, and after the hype died down the sales would also follow.
In the end, the numbers completely surpassed their expectations!
Not only did it not slow down, but it kept increasing, and broke twenty thousand in twenty-four hours!
So had known that they were going to witness this go down in history.
At noon, when the twenty-four hour statistics for Plants vs Zombies were released, the dia started uploading their articles.
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“The biggest underdog today: Plants vs Zombies!”
“Breaking twenty thousand downloads in the first day, destroying the new gas leaderboard”
“Gars say: I can’t stop!”
“Industry professionals predict: Likely to enter the puzzle gas leaderboard!”
“Ga reviews: Rich content, new playstyle, otherworldly creativity!”
“Can you believe this? Flappybird and Plants vs Zombies had the sa designer!”
“Breaking a hundred thousand in the first month? Shi Huazhe has no comnt.”
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The consensus of the video ga dia was very positive. The numbers that Plants vs Zombies produced were too good overall, and there wasn’t much to nitpick in the terms of quality either. Even the haters found it difficult to find things to hate on.
Under bombardnt from the video ga dia, Plants vs Zombies was getting more and more well known. In addition to the promoted space on the official app store, it was likely that Plants vs Zombies would receive another wave of explosive growth!
Noticing the hype around Chen Mo’s ga, many “caring” players put down everything they had on hand to check out Shi Huazhe’s Weibo, but it turned out that he had deleted his reply to Chen Mo.
Before today he liked criticizing everything, but ever since Plants vs Zombies beca popular, he hadn’t posted anything yet.
The ‘caring’ internet citizens weren’t satisfied. He was the one to say confidently that Chen Mo’s first ga wouldn’t be able to break a hundred thousand sales in the first month. Did he still think that now?
Forget about a hundred thousand; after breaking twenty thousand on the first day, this ga would be heading for five hundred thousand in the first month!
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“Mr Shi Huazhe, say sothing.”
“It’s fine, Plants vs Zombies only had twenty thousand downloads in the first day, it’s possible that it won’t hit a hundred thousand in the first month. You still have a chance, sir.”
“Sir, don’t give up your treatnt!”
“I have to say, it was a smart move for him to not say anything when asked what he was going to eat. That was smart of him.”
“So, you don’t plan to show yourself anyti soon?”
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The spectators around Plants vs Zombies were all comnting on Shi Huazhe’s Weibo trying to start sothing. A few of the sarcastic comnts were pushed to the top with hundreds of likes.
Shi Huazhe didn’t post anything, because he knew what would happen if he did. The best thing he could do was to not do anything. However, this didn’t an he hadn’t been looking at Weibo. With so many people making fun of him, sure he was angry, but there was nothing he could do since Plants vs Zombies had perford very well. Coming out and criticizing it wouldn’t do much.
With these sales and popularity, going against the flow would surely bring many haters. While Shi Huazhe was mad, he wouldn’t co out now to be murdered on the internet.
“How is this kid so lucky? How can everything he makes get so popular? Next ti, there’s no way he’ll be able to maintain this next ti!”
Shi Huazhe was set on not comnting. After others made fun of him and did not get any reactions, they decided to let this matter slide.
Things got popular quickly and died down quickly on social dia. These users were just trying to band together, and when they saw that nothing could be started, they left it alone.
However, Plants vs Zombies was getting quite popular, and the sales kept increasing.
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Zao Zihao and Lin Mao both congratulated Chen Mo over the phone.
“Not bad, I heard you murdered the new gas leaderboard. I think you must’ve raked in quite a bit of money. Hurry up, I’m still waiting for my pay to win ga,” said Zao Zihao.
Chen Mo laughed and said, “Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten.”
Lin Mao called in to congratulate Shi Huazhe, “That’s pretty good, Chen Mo. I thought that your ga would get quite popular, with a chance of going viral. I didn’t think it’d be this popular. That’s amazing!”
Chen Mo said, “Your ga is also doing pretty well, seeing as you’re second on the new gas leaderboard.”
Lin Mao said, “Sigh, it doesn’t even co close to your Plants vs Zombies. I’ve been playing it for the past two days. It’s actually pretty well done in all aspects, in particular how much playti there is! I think this ga is going to start a puzzle ga trend.”
Chen Mo replied, “So be it, I’m not making a puzzle ga for my next one.”
Lin Mao was shocked, “Huh? What are you trying to do? This ga is going to go viral, why not make a Plants vs Zombies 2 while it’s still hot?”
Chen Mo said, “Nah, I’m fine. I’m not planning on making my next ga a puzzle ga.”
Lin Mao didn’t understand, “Why? It makes you money and fa! You’re good at it too, why not do it?”
Chen Mo said, “It’s hard to explain, but I just don’t see too much potential in these types of gas. Alright, I have to go. Let’s et up so ti.”
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It wasn’t just Lin Mao who thought that puzzle gas were about to be popular. So did the video ga dia!
It was hard to say how popular Plants vs Zombies was, but from what was going on now, it was possible for it to top the puzzle gas leaderboard, possibly making ripples in the paid gas leaderboard too!
Moreover, the ga had been able to maintain a score of around 9.3, and a portion of that must have co from downvotes by competitors. However, their efforts were proven useless, as the reviews had never fallen below nine. It was evident that this ga was extrely popular!
The number of players who requested a refund were also few and far between.
As long as you had a short playti and had a good reason for the refund, the app store would provide one.
However there were extrely few players who requested refunds, aning that they recognized the ga and planned to play it long into the future!
In the eyes of the video ga dia and video ga designers, Chen Mo’s first ga was stable, well done, had gone far, was already quite popular, and was certainly quite influential.
Puzzle gas were always quite popular, but there weren’t many that could take it to the extre. Puzzle gas naturally had a large player base, as they catered to both the young and old. Therefore if it got popular, it would surely go viral.
Moreover the entry requirents for puzzle gas weren’t high, even a C or D-grade video ga designer could make one. The only thing required was innovation!
Not one of the designers in this world felt that they lacked creativity. Therefore, so designers and video ga dia were trying to figure out which direction this would end up in.
Would Plants vs Zombies be a fire starter, reigniting the entire puzzle ga market? Would a golden age for puzzle gas arrive soon?
It could only be judged by numbers in the future.
However, nobody knew that the creator of the ga, Chen Mo, didn’t plan to continue making puzzle gas...
At least for now!
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