Losing Money to Be a Chapter 24: The Artist Circle Is Getting Hyped!

Chapter 24: The Artist Circle Is Getting Hyped!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

A mont later...

The group chat exploded!

“Isn’t Tengda the company that created The Lonely Desert Road?!”

“!!!... They’re not making any ssed up gas anymore and have changed to mobile gas?”

“To think that company could be said to have a heart! Is this for real?”

All of those people made a quick search and naturally found out that the ga was created by the sa company which made the ssed up ga that had gotten popular for a little – The Lonely Desert Road!

How was it possible that this company had a heart?

Ruan Guangjian explained hurriedly, “It’s for real. If you guys don’t believe it, you can download the ga and try it for yourselves. The ga’s extrely fair and you can play it all you want for just the fixed price of 10 yuan! The only in-ga purchasable item is a 30 yuan permanent mbership card that only gives you an additional 10 draw chance daily. Other than that, there’s no other paywalls!”

“Are you serious?”

Chen Qi was skeptical.

A mobile card ga that did not have any in-ga purchasable items?

How were they expecting to make money?

Were they hoping to recoup their cost with just 10 yuan from every player?

Wouldn’t that make this a ga that was destined to lose money?!

Everyone were doubtful about it and purchased the ga to check it out.

After they tried it, they found out that the ga really did have conscience!

While there was indeed an in-ga market, the only item on sale was a permanent mbership card fixed at 30 yuan!

Most other card gas would include purchase options for energy, stage challenge counts and card draws et cetera, but Ghost General did not have that!

Which ant to say that the gars would be going through an almost identical gaplay experience without any distinction between the free gars and the whales!

Even the only in-ga purchasable item was a mbership card that cost a re 30 yuan!

That was equivalent to a single refill card for Fantasy World and what’s more, it was permanent!

Chen Qi was shocked.

He could not believe it!

As a famous ga concept artist dostically, he was working for a top dostic ga company and was a professional operating within the field.

While he was in charge of the aesthetics aspect, he had so knowledge about ga design as well.

In-ga purchasable items were the main source of profit for card gas where many whales would top up in the ball park of hundreds or even thousands. A single whale would be equivalent to a couple hundreds of normal players.

That paywall model had originated from Qute Three Kingdoms and indeed, the in-ga purchases of that ga was the envy of many ga companies.

Naturally, there were many gars who would accuse that ga of being corrupted.

But, which ga company would pit themselves against money?

Chen Qi had not expected that there would be a company this righteous that not only would they spend all their money on developing the ga such that they had nothing left for advertising, they would even cut their own source of inco just to provide an equal gaplay experience for all gars!

What sort of a spirit was this?

Childish... but noble at the sa ti!

Chen Qi’s eyes brimd with tears. He recalled that he had joined the industry back when standalone gas were prospering. Gars like him had always rembered their core values and were striving to create standalone gas that people could deem had a heart...

But now, there truly wasn’t much of these companies with souls left.

“No problem, I’ll help you share it on Weibo right away. A good ga like this must not be buried away!” Chen Qi was the first to reply.

The others naturally agreed with vigor.

“Indeed, it’s a ga with a heart! I’m off to advertise it too!”

“I don’t have much followers on Weibo. How about this, I’ll go share it to my other group chats.”

“Those posting it on Weibo, don’t forget to include the original arts! They are the backbone of the ga!”

Of course, there were those who had doubts about it.

Could this person have co just to make use of the veterans for free advertising?

However, that did not seem to be the case on second thought.

The main point was that Ruan Guangjian’s original arts were truly amazing and convinced everyone on its own. Otherwise, none of these famous veterans would want to help him advertise for free.

Furthermore, the ga truly had heart such that all in-ga paywall options were cut off completely.

This was a company with so much heart that they had not even spent on advertising nor increased the ga’s price. What was there to suspect about actions that were this righteous?

Based on the current situation, the ga was most likely going to make a huge loss. Casually helping to advertise would only be to delay its death.

Before long, the veterans in the group had already shared Ruan Guangjian’s Weibo and original arts.

Chen Qi had shared it as well, including a statent of his own.

“This is the work of a friend in my group. I really like his style of original art that reinterprets the traditional characters of the three kingdoms. With a rich imagination, his style is definitely one of its own.”

“P.S. He seed to have produced this for a ga called Ghost General.”

Chen Qi did not introduce it overly. It was partly because he had a direct nature and truly wasn’t soone who was good at being superfluous and at the sa ti, he did not want others to feel that it was purely a comrcial advertisent.

If he bragged too much about it, it would co across negatively instead.

The statent that he had shared on Weibo gave off the feeling of a casual ntion just to share his friend’s work.

Of course, even though these artists were veterans of the industry, they honestly did not have that much followers.

Take Chen Qi for example. While he was in charge of art and concept design for large scale dostic gas and had quite a number of widely accepted original arts works, his Weibo followers was only around the range of hundreds of thousands.

For a similar post, the comnts would mostly only be a couple of hundreds at best.

However, not all of Chen Qi’s Weibo friends were artists that were specialized in original arts for gas.

Amongst his friends, there were veterans of the animation industry, famous creators of ga companies or even so small-ti actors and novelists et cetera.

There was still so clout he had by advertising to these people.

Before long, the comnts on his Weibo increased rapidly.

“This is a modification of characters from the three kingdoms? Looks great!”

“Is this the work of an overseas artist?”

“It’s a dostic artist!”

“To think that even our dostic artists could create original arts with such an original style?!”

“Shocking! It feels so epic just looking at it!”

“The ga’s called Ghost General? How co I’ve never heard of it?”

“All of those mobile gas are cartoonish in design. I’m so sick of them! This style is extrely refreshing!”

“Let’s check it out!”

The reception was unusually warm!

Actually, this was normal as well. After all, Qute Three Kingdoms had already been popular for an entire year!

Through the year, Qute Three Kingdoms had caused the number of players for mobile card gas to increase. As such, most mobile gars would be able to pick up mobile card gas with ease.

But on the other hand, they were starting to get tired of Qute Three Kingdoms’s style as well.

This was especially the case for its cartoonish design. After many creators hopped onto the bandwagon and mass produced similar gas, majority of the gars were sick of the repeated cartoonish designs!

On the contrary, Ghost General was entirely different. Just the set of original arts alone was enough to let the gars know that this was an entirely different ga from Qute Three Kingdoms and would be intrigued as well!