I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me! Chapter 53 - 53 29 Just Today1

Chapter 53: Chapter 29: Just Today!_1 Chapter 53: Chapter 29: Just Today!_1 There are many kinds of despair in this world.

But none compare to what Ke Jin is facing right now.

He stares as the system data, which had been dismal for hours, suddenly spikes like it’s on a dose of Viagra.

It surges from 72% straight to 75%.

Then to 78%.

And then, with Ke Jin wearing a look of total bewildernt.

It breaks through the 80% threshold in one breath!

Revenue is also soaring, breezing past 300,000 early on and even starting to leave 500,000 in the dust.

“It’s over…”

“It’s all fucking over…”

To Ke Jin, his despair feels like the last eunuch in history who had just castrated the Qing Dynasty.

No, that’s not right.

How can you play a good hand so badly?

Gou Chehua, are you even doing your damn job?

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

Just as Ke Jin was pondering this, a phone call ca through.

And Gou Chehua’s voice, brimming with excitent he could barely contain, ca through.

“Congratulations, Designer Ke! Our ga’s first week’s revenue performance is stellar! The paynt response has exceeded expectations! It’s been just a week since launch and we’ve already hit the 53rd spot on the NAA new ga rankings! It’s already getting a lot of attention from players, and it looks like the montum is only going to grow from here! At this rate, I predict we will hit over one million in revenue in the first month after launch!”

At the sa ti, Gou Chehua is also contemplating.

Should he tell the boss about his own heroic deeds, battling against paid posters, deleting tens of thousands of comnts, and carving out a bloody path for “Gotham”?

To fight against those lurking paid posters, Gou Chehua barely slept for two whole days, constantly manning the computer doing a ‘delete and report’ quality combo.

But then he thinks better of it.

The boss is still persisting through clenched teeth despite not having the funds for promotion, not wanting to burden the staff with problems.

Making a fuss over the small part he played would just be inappropriate.

Moreover, he did not take part in the developnt of this ga, just stepped up the operations a bit.

If the ga is slowly gaining traction, it’s mostly due to its quality, not so much his own rit.

He believes that if he continues to work hard, Designer Ke will surely recognize his effort!

However, what confused Gou Chehua was.

After he reported all that good news about the ga, the voice on the other end of the phone.

Seed unenthusiastic, didn’t it?

“Designer Ke… are you troubled by sothing?” Gou Chehua cautiously asked.

“Ah… hahaha, no, no, I’m just so delighted to hear this news, it took a while to process it all,” said Ke Jin, who barely mustered a smile after thinking through all the happiest things in his life.

Delighted!

Damn, I’m just so delighted!

A heart with myocardial infarction.

After brushing it off with a few words, Ke Jin gave Gou Chehua a few days off, acknowledging his hard work over the past few days and suggesting he take a good rest.

But at the sa ti, doubts started to plague his mind.

It seed the approach of completely handing over the design plan to others wasn’t going to work.

Because he wasn’t in charge, he was clueless if there were any issues at any stage.

Like this sudden spike and fall in the paynt rates and revenue.

Unable to identify the core problem, he couldn’t shoot for the weak points either.

“It seems like for the next ga, I still need to oversee things myself, at least setting the general direction, so I can quickly make adjustnts if things go wrong.”

That’s what he said.

But as the proverb goes: Initial success is easy, subsequent progress is difficult, and sustained effort is the hardest.

Several consecutive mission failures have taken a significant toll on Ke Jin’s confidence.

High prices won’t do.

Low prices won’t do either.

Hands-off approach also doesn’t do the trick.

So what the fuck am I supposed to do then?

He even pondered at one point whether to just give up and be a salted fish, content with muddling through the rest of his life.

Just churn out a couple of halfway decent gas.

No talk of overnight riches, but at least he wouldn’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

As for the perfect, flawless ga version ntioned in the ultimate reward.

I don’t want it one bit.

I don’t want it at all… wuwuwu.

While Ke Jin’s thoughts kept bouncing between ‘giving up and scraping by for the rest of his life,’

suddenly, he heard a loud curse coming from the living room.

“Damn it! Why can’t I close this shitty ad? So damn annoying!”

“What’s wrong?” Ke Jin walked out of his room and saw Ke Yu, her little face crimson with rage, seemingly incensed.

Despite her teeth-grinding expression, her movents were cautious.

She held her phone in one hand, her little finger poised, held her breath, and delicately aid for a spot on the screen.

But at the next mont.

“Arghhhh!! I’m so angry at this damn ad! I really want to smack this phone to death!!”

Ke Jin: “…”

If you can’t close the ad, what’s the point of smashing the phone…

Moving closer to take a look, Ke Jin then understood.

Turns out it was just so unscrupulous businesses playing their little tricks.

He had beco accustod to it in his previous life.

He didn’t expect that Blue Star would have them too, and just as frustrating.

Usually, most apps will pop up ads during their use.

Moreover, these ads charge based on the number of clicks they receive.

For every user who clicks on it, the advertiser has to pay you for one click’s worth of ad revenue.

Where there is potential for profit, there will be people with ulterior motives.

As a result, unscrupulous software rchants, in order to earn more from ads, deliberately induce users to click the ads by mistake.

Typical ad close buttons are usually in the top right corner and will display as a red cross or a “Skip” button.

But the unscrupulous rchants’ ads co in all shapes and sizes.

At the light end, they’re displayed in the top left corner, going against intuition, causing users to subconsciously click the top right corner and then be taken directly to the ad.

At the extre, they simply hide the close button within the ad itself, helping the user exercise their brain’s thinking ability.

Little user, can you tell where the close button is?

The ad that Ke Yu faced now was even more intense.

As the young girl described through gritted teeth.

She was following a drama and found out there were cuts, so she went to a pirate website to see what had been edited out.

The mont she entered, an ad popped up.

At first glance, the ad seed normal, with a skip button in the top right corner.

Just as Ke Yu was about to press it to close the ad.

Suddenly, the ad automatically redirected on its own…

The reason was that, in addition to providing a close button, the ad also thoughtfully set up a shake-to-activate feature for the user.

As soon as the user reaches out to press the close button, their hand will slightly shake.

Thereby activating the phone’s built-in gyroscope and detecting that the user is shaking the phone.

Consequently, it automatically redirected to the ad page.

Want to leave the hospital?

You’ll have to go back in!

Once on the ad page, Ke Yu found out that it was a countdown ad.

You had to watch for 30 seconds before a “Skip” button would appear.

Unable to bear it, she decided to hit the big retreat button.

If I close the app, won’t that an I don’t have to watch the ad?

Genius!

But with modern touch-screen phones, to provide a better experience for the user, the back button is usually hidden on the edge of the phone.

You have to manually swipe to bring up the small nu before you can click it.

And this swipe across the screen was defaulted by the ad as ‘user has touched the screen,’ directly taking Ke Yu to the next ad page.

Unable to tolerate it any longer, Ke Yu finally exploded, waited out the 30 seconds to skip the ad, and exited the app.

She promptly downloaded an “Advertisent Blocking Software” from the app store at lightning speed.

The mont the software started up, Ke Yu completely lost her cool.

“Please watch an ad to unlock the ad-blocking feature of this APP.”

Fuck your ad!

Can’t stand it at all!

Just thinking about what she had just endured made Ke Yu angrier and angrier, and she felt like putting her phone on airplane mode and throwing it out of the window.

But after listening to the whole story, Ke Jin couldn’t help but let the smile on the corner of his mouth grow wider.

His eyes shone bright like torches!

Of course, he was not making fun of his silly little sister.

Rather, he had thought of a perfect thod to complete the ultimate task!

If!

I an, if.

If I make the recharge page with this kind of chanism…

Won’t the players, no matter how willing they are to pay, find themselves completely unable to spend a penny?

Holy shit!!!

This idea is brilliant!

Why didn’t I think of it sooner?

Ke Jin regretfully smacked Ke Yu’s thigh.

His previously dispirited confidence instantly skyrocketed!

When will I unlock the ultimate gift pack, you ask?

Today!