After his last phone call with Zhang nglong, Michel couldn't help feeling restless for so reason.
Zhang nglong's tactics were simply too nurous; he could play tricks on soone to bewilder and embarrass them, and even flaunt his wealth significantly.
But this ti, things were eerily quiet. The entire Arican economic market was calm, and there weren't any drastic changes in the gaming market either; everything seed to be under his control and as expected.
The calr it was, the more nervous he beca; knowing Zhang nglong's character, it was impossible for him to just give up and retreat.
Moreover, even if Zhang nglong behaved, both Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi were also unusually quiet.
You should know that their companies were among the ones most severely impacted in the Huaxia gaming industry; this all just wasn't scientific!
During this period, Michel's assistant had been keeping an eye on Huaxia, but had not obtained any significant information.
All they knew was that Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi had t with Zhang nglong and went together to the E-sports Town in Jiangnan City, but afterward they went their separate ways.
What they discussed there remains unknown.
...
That day, a new ga simultaneously appeared on the hopage of both Tengxun Gas and PUBG Gas.
This was indeed a rare occurrence, not to ntion how a new ga would choose two operators; most gas are exclusively represented by one company.
Given that these two gaming giants were always in a state of competition, it was almost impossible for such a thing to happen.
This definitely signaled sothing extraordinarily unusual; these two companies coming together ant they were operating sothing far beyond a re ordinary ga!
"Huh? A VR ga? That ans you need to buy VR equipnt. What the hell is this about?"
"How many people would really play this, considering the equipnt alone must cost at least a thousand bucks."
"A survival action-shooting ga as well? Isn't that the sa formula as 'PUBG'?"
"Cut it out, VR technology isn't even mature yet; who would play this thing!"
Although this ga had a high exposure, not many people were willing to download it.
'Self-developed'—these two words made many people give up on the ga imdiately. It's not that there weren't any dostic ga developers that had tried this genre before, but the results were hilariously poor, unable to withstand the competition from already established gas.
What's more, most of the players were concentrated on gas developed by a few established companies; with no players, who would waste ti playing this new ga?
Usual gas have closed beta tests, open beta tests, and then public beta tests, but here you are, coming out of nowhere with a new ga without any market testing. How confident are you really? Was it Liang Jingru who gave you the courage?
"VR equipnt for only 200? Hahaha, can sothing that cheap even be playable?" So players clicked into the official ga website, but this is just the ntality of Huaxia consurs.
Too expensive, and I can't afford it; too cheap, and I feel it's no good.
This news quickly reached Michel's ears.
"Oh? They made a new shooting ga?" Michel was quite surprised, "Just a few days and they want to challenge our market? They're probably desperate, buying trash gas from so third-rate developers."
"Boss, this is a VR ga, and there's never been a bona fide VR-oriented strategic survival ga on the market before. I think we shouldn't underestimate it," said Michel's assistant.
"Have you experienced this ga?"
Michel's assistant shook his head, "I'm sorry boss, this ga is only available in the dostic market, and you can only register an account after having a Huaxia ID and going through real person authentication. Moreover, they have clearly stated that they are currently refusing foreign agencies."
"A joke," Michel scoffed, "What kind of gas can Huaxia people make with their technology, and they even restrict nationality and region. Do they think people would buy their lousy gas? With such high costs for VR gas, even if they were made well, not many people would play them."
"But boss, their gaming equipnt is only 200."
"200? Ha ha ha ha!" Michel laughed even more wildly, his worries completely vanished at that mont.
His company, Explosive Mines Gas, also developed VR gas. For a decent gaming experience, even the cheapest VR equipnt needed nearly 1000 Huaxia yuan.
What kind of junk could you make for 200 yuan? How terrible must the quality be to justify that price?
"They can't possibly be thinking of using that kind of ga to declare war on us, can they?" Michel said, "The confidence of Huaxia people is really over the top. Such a product couldn't shake even a small company, let alone challenge the gaming developnt level in Huaxia."
...
As expected, even with Tengxun and Wangyi giving it the best promotional spots, the ga's first-day stats were pitiful—128,090 true hopage visits, 980 downloads, 15 orders.
For the early operational data of a ga, this could almost be considered a flop.
"The people nowadays!" Zhang nglong, Ding Sanshi, and Ma Hua sat together, not at all troubled by the data as their major bombshell had not yet been dropped.
"Both of you, are your ad spots ready?"
"Ready," the two chuckled. Though Tengxun relied on gas for profit, their greatest competitive edge lay in traffic and social networking; their advertising impact was trendous.
"Experience 'Operation: Thunder Elimination,' win a villa worth up to 50 million!"
At 8 PM, an advertisent instantly flooded all channels—Tengxun News, Weixin pushes, Muyin ads, Weibo, and so forth; the announcent of the ga link and its ads covered everywhere.
"Play gas to win a villa? Are they joking?"
"Ma Hua is scamming people again. Given their track record, the odds of winning must be zero, right? They'll probably use an employee to pretend to be the winner."
"Please, there is no need for such hyped-up stuff. How long would you need to develop gas to earn back all those villas and cars?"
"Absolutely outrageous. Do they take us for fools? Firm resistance it is!"
...
"Boss Ma, Boss Ding, your reputations aren't doing you any favors!" Zhang nglong laughed, "Look, people don't believe you even when you offer them money. When I played one of your gas, it had a 90% win rate, yet I didn't win anything after 10 tries—I would have won millions if I had bought lottery tickets with that probability!"
"Hehehe," Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi chuckled sheepishly, "We're just trying to make a living, after all, everyone needs to support their families."
"Forget it, it's all up to
now!"
Zhang nglong finished editing his Weibo post and instantly published it on the platform.
"I'm paying!"
A simple three words plus a link.
As soon as the Weibo was posted, the read count, shares, and likes skyrocketed like a rocket.
1000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000...
"What? Boss Zhang is paying?"
"Damn! Who can resist that? Had he said this earlier, I would've downloaded the ga this morning!"
"I wouldn't believe anyone else saying this, but when Boss Zhang says it, I feel like killing everyone here to stop you from competing with
for a spot."
"Crap! Ma Hua, your damn website server is so rubbish, it can't handle this amount of downloads!"
"Ding Sanshi! I'm going to curse your lineage to be barren if your neglect costs
this 50 million villa!"
...
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