Chapter 114: Never Touch this Rubbish Ga!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
April 1st, April Fool’s Day…
Ga Designer was officially up for sale. It was set at twenty-eight yuan!
Now that Tengda had made a na for itself and even recruited several video UP Masters to publicize its new ga, it was impossible for it to publish the new ga without gars realizing it.
Pei Qian struggled with pricing for a long ti.
He could not set too low a price because of lessons he learned from Ghost General. He could not set too high a price either because of another set of lessons he learned from Ocean Stronghold.
What should he do, then?!
He was caught in a fix.
Pei Qian pondered over it for a long ti, before deciding to price the ga slightly lower than average.
This was because the special characteristic of Ga Designer was that gars could achieve “Cloud?Clearance”1!
As long as content creators recorded themselves playing this ga, the Cloud?Players1?would fully experience the ga on these video websites. Then, they would not have such a great urge to buy the ga.
In other words, the main group of people who would buy the gas would be hardcore gars.
These would be people like video UP Masters, anchorwon, and gars who were passionate for dostically-produced standalone gas. This group of people would not be price-sensitive. Whether a ga was priced at thirty yuan or ninety yuan would make no real difference to them. If they wanted to play it, they would buy it.
As for people like Cloud Players who were used to getting the gaming experience for free—no matter how low the price was, it would not be lower than zero yuan.
Thus, after taking everything into consideration, pricing the ga at twenty-eight yuan was best. That was the lowest price the System would allow Pei Qian to set.
Given that the target audience was more or less set, the low price would ensure that Pei Qian earned less!
This price caused so people in the company to worry. They were afraid that they would not be able to recover their capital. However, after Pei Qian shot down all of their suggestions, he finalized the price.
Pei Qian hoped that this ga’s descriptors would be: huge investnt, cool backgrounds, vastly popular, and dismal sales!
Until now, Ga Designer’s main investnt was in its art resources. They poured more than two million yuan in the art resources. Together with all the other expenses, they spent a total of about three million yuan on creating the ga.
Ruan Guangjian gave them discounts, but he was only in charge of the animation design. Tengda still had to pay other people to create the actual animations, backgrounds, and models.
After adding in all the other expenses for the ga, they had to sell more than three hundred thousand copies of it before they would be able to profit!
Pei Qian was quite confident that they would not be able to reach that volu of sales.
He could accept the fact that a small group of people among the gars were masochists. However, there could not possibly be three hundred thousand masochists among them, right?
…
At the sa ti that the ga was published, Qiao Liang uploaded his video.
After he finished, Qiao Liang imdiately logged off the Potato Web platform. He switched off notifications on his fans’ chatting platforms and set his cell phone to silent mode. In a single breath, he had gone into isolation mode!
At once, he sent the link to the video to Lu Mingliang. A while later, they sent the money over. Now that the money was in his account, Qiao Liang heaved a long sigh of relief.
Perfect!
He was now in full ostrich-mode. He did not care that chaos was going to follow. Since the money was in his account, he could play for two months before paying attention to any of this! Even if he got scolded upside down, everything will blow over in two months. He would act as if nothing had happened. Teacher Qiao was still a good man.
…
Not long after Qiao Liang posted his video, his fans received a notification recomnding it. In just ten minutes, the fans’ moods were vastly overturned. They were very hurt!
At first, when they saw that Teacher Qiao had just uploaded a new video, they were overjoyed. When they saw that it was posted under New Recomnded Gas of the Month, their excitent halved. That was because they knew that this was the segnt he used for sponsored partnerships; the videos there were not very interesting. A portion of the fans felt bored so they clicked the notification to watch the video.
Then, their three points-of-views [3. This is a Chinese, online slang representing one’s values, life philosophy, and worldview.] were shredded to bits! The entire video contained only recordings of a certain ga. The ga looked very beautiful; there was nothing worth criticizing.
However, the voice-over and contents of the narration could only be described with four words: intolerable to the ears!
“My dear daddies, greetings. I’m the sa old Godfather of Gas you guys know
as—Teacher Qiao. Before I begin this video, would you—dear daddies—please allow
to calm myself down? Slurp, slurp, slurp… ah…
“Everyone, the ga that you are looking at now… do you see its creator? Tengda! Tengda Gas has published a new ga. Now, I want to start by showing all of you the images from this ga…
“Sorry, everyone, I’m a little incoherent. Uh-oh, ladies and gentlen, the very first?ti1…
“I haven’t felt this way in a couple of years. I’ve waited for this ga for so long. At 3:11 AM, Tengda Gas’ research and developnt team sent these video materials to
online. Its na is Ga Designer. G-A-M-E, ga, ga designer!
“Aweso!”
…
Many fans of Teacher Qiao were stunned. Their mouths were stuck in an ‘O’ shape until they finished the video. The video was not long; it lasted ten minutes at most. However, the style of the video was very different from the rest of Teacher Qiao’s videos. It looked like it was made by a completely different person!
In the past, although the videos under the New Recomnded Gas of the Month were all done for sponsors, Teacher Qiao still put in effort for them. He did an introduction that matched the style of each ga. He spoke coherently and smoothly in the videos. He did these videos for sponsors so he emphasized the gas’ good points and skimd through their bad points. However, the videos were still full of content and interesting.
What the hell was this video all about?
Strangely, he was using English words mixed with Mandarin. He was even using a tone that disgusted the viewers. He was praising this ga to no end, and not ntioning a single bad point about it. What’s more, he was saying useless things. It was almost as if he could not find anything good to say about the ga in reality.
The most important thing was that even after watching the entire video, they could not find anything of value. Everything was pointless. It was a pure waste of ti! Apart from disgusting people to the core, this video served no purpose.
After watching the video, many fans could not accept the cruel reality.
“Teacher Qiao, if you were kidnapped, blink! Oh, you’re not showing your face. That’s alright.”
“What is this? It’s fine if you’re being sarcastic, but how awful can this be?!”
“Turn away, turn away!”
“Suck-ups deserve to die!”
“I shouldn’t have clicked this video after seeing that it was posted under New Recomnded Gas of the Month.”
“What’s the aning of this? Is this an April Fool’s joke? En, it’s April 1st. I guess that’s it!”
“I cannot tell from his tone whether he is being sarcastic or for real…”
“If you cannot tell whether he is being sarcastic or just stupid, always take it that he’s being stupid!”
“I counted. In this ten-minute video, you said ‘uh-oh’ more than thirty tis. I’m very bored, and you’re a suck-up!”
“Uh-oh, aweso. This is my own mont!”
“It’s hard to believe the amount of money this Teacher Qiao—who has played countless gas before—received before he agreed to make a sponsored video like that…”
“I’m beginning to doubt that he is getting paid for this video at all. Wouldn’t the big client get disgusted, seeing him suck up to this extent?”
“The key thing was… he was publicizing Tengda Gas! From The Lonely Desert Road to the current Ga Designer… I’m stunned. What happened between Tengda and Teacher Qiao…?”
“Was the ga-dissing UP Master defeated with the evil gas company’s money? I can’t help but picture what happened between them in my head!”
“Tengda seed to have really published a new ga today… called Ga Designer. There’s a 99.99% chance that Teacher Qiao was paid to do this!”
“Is it really Tengda’s ga? Is it the sa company that published Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold? This… why is their marketing strategy so lousy? Or was Teacher Qiao sucking up on his own?”
“After watching this video, I was determined never to touch this rubbish ga. However, after seeing that it’s Tengda’s ga, I feel the urge to try it out. What should I do?”
“Don’t do it! You know that it’s sh*t; why would you eat it? Why do you hate yourself so much?!”
“I’m the exact opposite. I really want to see what kind of ga could make my son suck up to this extent!”
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